Analysis of Time



Time ticks slow,
Time ticks fast,
Time ticks past,
         so quick.
I can not save,
     my blooming arse.


Scheme ABBCDE
Poetic Form
Metre 111 111 111 11 1111 1101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 108
Words 23
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 71
Words per stanza (avg) 18

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about subjective time

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Written on October 25, 2022

Submitted by on October 25, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Harold Creggan

born 1st of May 1950, attended University of Cambridge 1968 more…

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