Analysis of Tech Tock



Tech Tock, Tech Tock,

Let the world see how I spend my clock.

The restless QWERTY board rattles the most.

A stage is set, Internet, the host.

Follower quotients are all the rage.

Let the world see how I gild my cyber cage.

Proclamations, validation, ego manifest.

Engulfed with pride: showing only my best.

Too many friends. Too little time.

Endless pursuance of the sublime.

The negative, I eschew.

The positive, I pursue.

What is this delusion?

My guilty pleasure of cyber seclusion.

Celebrating, judging, reassuring, envying.

In my quiet corner, my soul will not sing.

The global web-based opera.

Constricting, dilating my viscera.

Nature surrounds me; living is waiting

I choose to observe. I don’t always have the nerve

To partake? Am too much of a flake.

Friends live abroad, family too.

I relish their updates and my regular review.

It has become too surreal.

Too much info, what to feel?

Sucked into the vortex.

More time gone, and I am vexed.

Is the Alchemy of friendship buried in a chip?

Is my endless quest for approval sequestered in being hip?

Is this my truest life?

I ask does it bring more joy than strife?

I continue to seek the balance.

And ask how does it enhance.

I choose to not allow it to lead me astray.

Not burgle my time, nor dominate my play

Tech Tock, Tech Tock.

I control my clock.


Scheme A a b b c c d d e e f f g g a h i i h x x f f j j x x k k l l x x m m A a
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 101111111 010111001 01111001 10011101 10111111101 0100101010 0111101011 11011101 1011001 0100101 0100101 111010 11010110010 100100101 01101011111 0101110 010111 1001110110 11101111101 101111101 11011001 110101011001 1101101 1110111 101010 1110111 1010011010001 1110110100100101 111101 111111111 101011010 0111101 111101111101 111111011 1111 10111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,417
Words 342
Sentences 37
Stanzas 37
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 37
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 28
Words per stanza (avg) 6

About this poem

My musings on social media and the impact it has on my life.

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Written on April 05, 2015

Submitted by adelelenaleahy on September 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Adele Leahy

Adele has been writing for many years and has completed her debut romantic comedy. Her book features many of her poems as Adele finds poetry to be a powerful cathartic tool. Blogging daily for one year in a whimsical fashion has allowed Adele to chronicle the more unusual events in her life. Her blog now continues weekly. more…

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