Analysis of Not time for the birds
I can't open my eyes
For the days are too heavy
I wonder only in sleep
Through blurry skies
I cannot feel the embers
Rising into the sky in blessing
Or hear the doors opening
Quietly as I die
I feel not the birds landing
As they shake the ground
Nor touch the lights
That linger with there calm stare
I only fall deeper into sleep
Into my last breath
Into the depths of my confusion
In all of it's truth telling illusion
I have no time for time
No kiss for the gods nor the darkness
Only voided thoughts
The past is past forever
The present sinking down into the earth
The future too far into the future
I am only what I am
Scheme | ABCADEEFEGHICJKKLMNOPOQ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011 1011110 1101001 1101 1101010 100101010 1101100 100111 1110110 11101 1101 1101111 110110011 01111 010111010 0111110010 111111 111011010 10101 0111010 0101010101 0101101010 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 497 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
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Written on May 12, 2023
Submitted by heathert.34240 on May 12, 2023
Modified by heathert.34240 on May 12, 2023
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