Analysis of running out of time

Richard T. Reece Jr. 2004 (porterville)



tic tok the time on
the clock, every single
second, I grow older


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 11011 0110010 101110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 62
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 50
Words per stanza (avg) 13

About this poem

I am still young but everyday I am reminded that It won't stay that way and that time will take me eventually.

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Submitted by Richard_Reece on September 07, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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