Analysis of Time Was
Time was
I threw away entire weeks
or two
crumpled up sweet nights,
rolled rich mornings like old paper,
stacked them to one side
Never seeing how in the end
I had miscounted,
Misjudged,
the better use of all the light
pooled along the horizon like
a silky, silent measuring stick.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGFHIJK |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 11010101 11 10111 11101110 11111 10101001 111 01 01011101 10100101 010101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 270 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 225 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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