Analysis of Prisoners Of Time
In three thousand years of philosophical thought
what in fact’s been changed
Has a sorrow been healed or steeple been built
resulting from the game
The essence, the theory, the logic, the proof
all couplets lacking rhyme
In the end all victims chained unto themselves
—prisoners of time
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
| Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01101101001 10111 10101111011 010101 01001001001 11101 00111011001 10011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 328 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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