Analysis of On Time
Jonathan Swift 1667 (Dublin) – 1745 (Ireland)
Ever eating, never cloying,
All-devouring, all-destroying,
Never finding full repast,
Till I eat the world at last.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 10101010 101001010 101011 1110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 120 |
| Words | 19 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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