Analysis of Time Unrequited
Charging to the front,
my words stay behind,
an anchor in the drifting sand
To live past today,
to prod and remind
—what time unrequited demands
(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)
| Scheme | XAX XAX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101 11101 11000101 11101 11001 1101001 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 169 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 46 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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