Analysis of The value of time
Shirley Asuquo Peter 2004 (Calabar)
Tick, Tick, Tick
The years of life pass,
Slow but faster than,
the seasons of the earth,
Life a blink of the eye,
Age as drops of rain.
It was all but yesterday,
A little child in my mother's womb.
Where did time go,
Where was I all this while,
Floating through air,
While the years passed,
Existing but not living,
Where did time go.
Now I wake but time is gone,
Few years left but time to live.
Scheme | xxxxxx xx AxxxxA xx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 01111 11101 010101 101101 11111 111110 010101101 1111 111111 1011 1011 0101110 1111 1111111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 402 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 2, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
This poems is about our time here on earth. How little of it we have. How we humans spend time pursing things and forget to just enjoy it.
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Written on October 25, 2022
Submitted by shirleyapeter on October 30, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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