Analysis of time is sleeping.



bear down
the empty sky
once rained
now a pocket
of fuzzy white clouds
the wind
once stood still
like time
had taken a nap
on a rooftop
and used all the leaves
as pillows
forgetting to turn off the light
but the bulb burned out
it became forever night.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLMNM
Poetic Form Tetractys  (53%)
Metre 11 0101 11 1010 11011 01 111 11 11001 101 01101 110 01011101 10111 1010101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 238
Words 50
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 202
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Alexis Esteb

I am directed by emotions alone. I am quite lonely, often springing to tears for no reason. I have a tendency to absorb the emotions of anyone near me. more…

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