Analysis of Time



goes the clock

Stars and planets

glide through space

as they slowly spin.

Time is just a measure

of how long things

take to change.

Sooner or later

will all be re-arranged.

Do not fear

the march of time

it waits for no human.

So make the best

of the time that’s left,

things never go as planned.

Don’t be distraught

by any thought

of pain imagined or real.

If nothing else,

time has in itself

the true power to heal.


Scheme X X X X A X X A X X X X X X X B B C X X C
Poetic Form
Metre 101 1010 111 11101 111010 1111 111 10110 111101 111 0111 111110 1101 10111 110111 1101 1101 1101011 1101 11001 011011
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 438
Words 86
Sentences 8
Stanzas 21
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 15
Words per stanza (avg) 4
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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