Analysis of A Sliver of Time
Perhaps a thousand years from now
Down a long forgotten
Road…
We’ll gaze upon the distant stars
And take a final bow…
For time is a fickle rascal
As the Old Man did Say
Live in the moment
In the day…
And let nothing ever slip
Away…
| Scheme | AXXXA XBXB XB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010111 101010 1 11010101 010101 11101010 101111 10010 001 0110101 01 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 248 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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This poem is a look at the future through our eyes.
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