Analysis of Hourglass
I will not be a dying star.
Fading in the night.
Falling and forgotten.
Dimming in the sky.
Losing all my shine.
Darkening against the lights.
I will not be a broken branch
Deserted in the brush
Fallen and forgotten.
Rotten to the heart.
Withering in the light.
Gone and forgotten with evening's blush.
I will not be an hourglass
Buried in the sands of time.
Falling and forgotten.
A drifting grain of sand.
Used and reused.
Drained and stretched within the rhyme.
| Scheme | xaBxxx xcbxac xdBxxd |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101 10001 100010 10001 10111 1000101 11110101 010001 100010 10101 100001 100101101 1111110 1000111 100010 010111 1001 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 468 |
| Words | 99 |
| Sentences | 15 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
Late night thoughts after watching Aladdin and thinking about legacies.
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