Analysis of The Manuscript
Marcus Holley 1992 (London)
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 |
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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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