Analysis of Time
Easily measured
not clearly defined
Often lamented
more often unkind
Its loss we all mourn
searching heaven to find
The time to become
—a new past to rewind
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | XA XA XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 11001 10010 11001 11111 101011 01101 011110 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 195 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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