Analysis of Wasting Time
Squandering what you
never had
And what you’ll never
—understand
(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Cinquain (20%) Lanturne (20%) |
| Metre | 10011 101 01110 01 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 91 |
| Words | 13 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 24 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 30, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on March 30, 2020
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