Analysis of A Prisoner Of Time
Drifting into the past,
tomorrow slipped further away
Drifting into the past,
my writing had little to say
Drifting into the past,
the moments became moments no more
Drifting into the past
—being no longer certain or sure
(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)
Scheme | Ab Ab Ax Ax x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100101 0111001 100101 11011011 100101 010011011 100101 101101011 1100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 244 |
Words | 41 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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