Analysis of Recording Our Folly
What is the human
perception of time
If measurement stops
and clocks will not chime
Seconds to minutes,
minutes to hours
Pendulum still
—Big Ben disempowered
(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 01011 11001 01111 10110 10110 1001 111 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 183 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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