Analysis of The Manuscript




At first there was Time

And then the Earth and Life came at once.

Together they found a balance

Between chaos and nothing

And Light was born.

Earth asked to Time ‘may I build?’

‘May I make mountains, ground, and oceans below?"

And Life asked to Time ‘may I follow?’

‘May I make beings

Who here may grow?’

And Time did ponder this alone.

As together they mused of creation

Time he did concede,

‘All Earth will damage through my passing’

‘And all Life must come to me’.


Scheme X A A B X X C C X C X X X B X
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 010101111 01011010 0110010 0111 1111111 11110101001 011111110 11110 1111 01110101 1010111010 11101 111101110 0111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 535
Words 125
Sentences 9
Stanzas 15
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 24
Words per stanza (avg) 6

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Written on 2014

Submitted by SeesawUpendown on January 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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