Analysis of Time of Men
Time of Men
Granular and fine is the rhyme in time,
That marks the eternal ilk of kind.
The want of men within a world of sin,
Spouts a sieve of mother's milk from in.
Fraught in nakedness and innocence,
For a mind emptied of common sense,
Causes time to drift in history from within.
Upon one's life, slivered and sliced so thin.
Never to meet or clash in shadows past,
For any day's end that will never last.
Everything in life is either bought or sold.
Yet in his time, he has a story to be told.
| Scheme | XXXAA XXAA BBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 1000110101 110010111 0111010111 101110110 1010100 101101101 101110100101 011110111 101111011 1101111101 1001110111 101111010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 487 |
| Words | 98 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on July 05, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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