Analysis of Time
Who I am, now
I can't be as sure
as looking at old
photographs and
remembering a scene,
or those people.
Likewise, where I will
be, maybe six hours from
now, is clearer than
this time, here,
at the kitchen table looking
out the window at
frosted leaves and orange morning light.
| Scheme | XXXXXX XXXXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 11111 11011 100 010001 1110 1111 1101101 11101 111 10101010 10101 101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 266 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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