Analysis of Universal Time
Universal time is now
Hear glockenspiels chime
Each heartbeat pulses now
Feel the strokes of time
Holidays and calendars
show the daily climb
Timekeeper connoisseurs
prove the point in time
A moment in time is now
Stop right on a dime
Each airbreath inhales now
There's no other time
Scheme | ABAB CBCB ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010111 111 11101 10111 100100 10101 101 10101 0100111 11101 1111 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 272 |
Words | 49 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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