Analysis of Time's Sultan Of Doom



If you live long enough
  you can outgrow everything
  even uncertainty and doubt

As the road fades behind you
  and memories compress
  giving you a final way out

Taking you into a magical land
  between two worlds where you
  float in-between

One where you struggled and questioned yourself
  and one made of wishes
  and dreams

All choices abandoned and willed to the past
  the either-or the most cryptic
  of tombs

As you travel within and beyond just yourself
  all past futures
   —time’s sultan of doom

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)


Scheme XXA BXA XBX CXX XXX CXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 11110 10010001 1011011 010010 10101011 1010101001 011111 1001 1111001001 011110 01 11001001101 01010110 11 111001001101 1110 11011 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 535
Words 89
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 61
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 25, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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