Analysis of Borrowing Time
The air I breathe,
the blood that flows
The light that shines,
the voice that knows
The question asked,
the answer stoned
Tomorrow sold
—today on loan
(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111 0111 0111 0111 0101 0101 011 0111 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 173 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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