Analysis of Tick tock ..tick tock
Tick Tock Tick Tock
Tick tock...Tick tock....one minute, two then three
Constant beats of my loneliness as it engulfs me.
Like the beat of the clock, my heartbeat echos as well.
The echo finds no barriers as it travels throughout this empty shell.
Being alone and empty makes everything inside
feel like a vast ocean fighting against its own tide.
Tick tock..Tick tock..one minute, two then three
carves the beats into the story of my very destiny.
Loneliness is so much more than a heartache. It shreds your very soul.
You scream at your very existence and curse your life as a whole.
The sound of time...Tick tock..Tick tock..
is as steady and constant as the sea crashing and battering against the rock.
Time is a curse that the lonely must ride.
Unless they stop life's clock early by committing suicide.
Only God's hands are destined to be in control of life's clock.
He alone is meant to give your lifetime it's intended number of beats of the Tick tock..Tick tock...
By taking life's clock away from God and into your own hands..
Your loneliness will now not end in a lifetime but will last an eternity that will stretch out like all the oceans vast sands.
Your soul may have traveled to another time and space..
But it will now be cursed to the sound of the Tick tock..Tick tock for an eternity in it's forever resting place.
Scheme | a Bb cc dd Bb ee aa dd aaff gg |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 11110111 101111001111 101101111011 010111001110011101 100101011001 1101101001111 11110111 101010101110100 1001111101111101 1111100100111101 011111 11100101011001000101 1101101011 01111110101010 101111011001111 1011111111010101110111 110110111001111 110011110011111010011111101011 1111101010101 1111111011011111010001010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,343 |
Words | 272 |
Sentences | 26 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 50 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
This is a poem about how a person can become so lonely that every beat of the clock is an excruciating reminder that he is alone.
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