Analysis of Prison Of Time
She wrote into my dreams
the first line of a nightmare
And I can no longer sleep
in fear of the next line
She ran away with all hope
that one line to haunt me
Each new second an hour
—in this prison called time
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
| Scheme | XX XX XA XX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111 011101 0111101 011011 1101111 111111 1110110 011011 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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