Analysis of Tick Tock that's the sound
Tick Tock
Tick Tock
Tick Tock
That's the inevitable sound
which abruptly summons
you back to the ground
as you seek to find
something inside yourself
apparently out of reach
It's the midst of a sunny morning
off to work soon it will be
the same place of dread
you haft to earn a living
But you won't be like the others
and simply turn to stone
one day your going
to make it on your own
Co-workers are there
it seems year after year
settling like one of them
is what you most fear
Tick Tock
Tick Tock
Tick Tock
That's the inevitable sound
which summons you
back to the ground
Employers think they own you
they have no clue
it is to myself I will remain true
eventually find what I seek
even though the present
appears at times bleak
Out there somewhere
lies my special place
in the schene
Tick Tock
Tick Tock
Tick Tock
Scheme | AAA Bxbxxx cxxc xdcd efxf AAA Bgb ggghxh exd AAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 11 11 10010001 101010 11101 11111 100101 0100111 101101010 1111111 01111 1111010 11111010 010111 11110 111111 11011 111101 1001111 11111 11 11 11 10010001 1101 1101 0101111 1111 111111011 010001111 101010 01111 111 11101 001 11 11 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 842 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 6, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
A poem about how we have all experienced those moments in our mundane lives that we feel powerless against time in this case laboring away to the same unfufilling job
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