Analysis of The value of time



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
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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