Analysis of Time On Earth
Brittany Wilson 1988 (Milwaukee, WI)
We've heard all the quotes
All our lives & some of them
We know by heart, right?
If not, what are they?
Here they are. Time heals wounds &
Time waits for no one.
Time will slowly catch
Up to whomever listens
& pays attention.
| Scheme | XXX XXA XXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 1101111 11111 11111 111111 11111 11101 1101010 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 227 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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