Analysis of Time
Every minute counts in our daily sortie.
Every minute mounts
up to fourteen forty.
Time waits for no one, seize the sacred present.
Time for having fun
is quickly overspent.
Keep for the minutes many hours wasted.
Keep for mere peanuts
the words cut and pasted.
Time can be a friend, never try to kill it.
Time is a godsend,
destiny of kismet.
Add a minute less and a life will sever.
Add a minute more
and there is forever.
| Scheme | AXA XXX XXX BXB CXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001010101010 100101 111110 11111101010 11101 110101 11010101010 11110 011010 11101101111 1101 100110 10101001110 10101 011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 410 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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