Analysis of In Retrospect
Quaid-Uz-Zaman 1954 (Jamalpur)
Around the pith of theirs heart
lie the annual rings
narrow
or
thick
with visuals and
scriptures
to tell the time not by any virtual clock
but kept reserved in frozen steps
and with
flaps of Archaeopteryx
-periods all along alive.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJBK |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101111 101001 10 1 1 1100 10 110111101001 11010101 01 111 10010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 227 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on October 01, 2020
Modified on April 27, 2023
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