Analysis of Time Bandit
Has the future made a profit
by selling out your dreams
Marking up expectations,
closing out self esteem
Interest bearing hopes uncashed,
wishes in arrears
Creditors loom, the past foreclosed
—tomorrow paid in tears
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
| Scheme | AX XX AX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101010 110111 101010 101101 101011 10001 10010101 01101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 248 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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