Analysis of The Length of Time
Akinsola Odubona. 1999 (Lagos)
If I could die without the thought of life
Engulfed in time's waste, the soul's peril
I would not ask for other joy than respiratory arrest.
With shining of Sun's ray and sound of birds.
I sit on perpetually troubled day by day.
Watching grass grow and wildflowers range.
From Blue to Yellow and Red to Gray.
In natural sequence as they wane away.
I could bait the wait, but for the hurt.
Of this incessant tick of time which chides my ear.
But I dear not sit with loins ungrit.
And staff unlifted, for death stands, neigh.
I must be up and doing, each second.
The sepulchre gives time for rest when we lay in it.
Scheme | AXBXCXCC XXBAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010111 010110110 111111011100001 1101110111 1110100010111 1011011 111100111 01001011101 111011101 110101111111 11111111 0111111 1111010110 01111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on April 17, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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