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 |
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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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