Analysis of Quam Tempus Fugit
Watch it haste and watch it fly,
Why try espy it flashing by?
Now you see it, now you don't,
Then you heard it ~ now you won't.
First it's here and then it's gone,
It's much the same for everyone.
Like a cloud high in the air
Glance once more and it's not there.
Like a bubble drifting past,
Though you know it cannot last.
A tranquil breeze, the bubble stops ~
Attempt to touch! the bubble pops.
Where it stems from no one knows;
No one sees to where it goes.
You know it's there but you can't find...
As not a trace it leaves behind.
Man can't beat this mighty force,
To try and try he'll fail, of course;
He'll never grasp the wheres and whys
Quam tempus fugit ~ how time flies!
Scheme | AABB XXCC DDEE FFGG HHII |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 1110111 11101101 1111111 1111111 1110111 1101110 1011001 1110111 1010101 1111101 01010101 01110101 1111111 1111111 11111111 11011101 1111101 11011111 11010101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 663 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
Another early ASJ poem, this time from 1974. I hope that you can find the time to read it.
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