Analysis of The sand artist of Time

Royston 1946 (Reading)



During the fading moments of the year 2022
the sand artist had completed all he wanted to do,
and sat down to watch the tide of time rushing in
washing the beach clear for the new year to begin.

Then with the loving use of kind words and deeds,
as the New Year started,  once more he proceeds
to compose a brand-new masterpiece for all to see,
on the canvas of life that we all call 2023.


Scheme XXAA BBXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1001010101 01101010111011 011110111100 100111011101 11010111101 10111011101 101011101111 1010111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 391
Words 82
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 152
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted by royston on January 03, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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