Analysis of The Hourglass 1:2
What happens when the sand runs?
Is it the flow of time?
What happens when the sand runs out?
Will it all stop?
Is our existence tied to The Hourglass?
Or is The Hourglass tied to us?
Turn The Hourglass
What happens?
Is it all undone?
Or is it a new beginning?
| Scheme | AXXXBX BAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 1101011 110111 11010111 1111 11001011010 11010111 1010 110 11101 11101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 251 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 05, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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