Analysis of The Emptying Hourglass
There’s a voice inside that’s killing me,
slowly day by day
Each line I write, each word I speak
—is paid with time reclaimed
(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)
| Scheme | XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 101011101 10111 11111111 111101 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 155 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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