Analysis of Cuckoo Clock
Made of curvaceous ornamental brass,
sometimes parallel straight arms of white metal,
coated with different shades of radium paint,
hung to long center pivot thoroughly oiled and greased,
the hour hand moves at painstaking speed,
the minute hand ticks a shade faster,
the second hand is the fastest of them all.
all thick needles displaying time,
passing moments of pragmatic life,
traversing in circular clockwise journeys,
in a background of finely calibrated dial,
and roman numerals ascending from one to twelve,
all this compactly imprisoned in water proof glass,
tightened by an artillery of shock proof screw,
triggered by maze of compressed springs,
with gold plated chains suspended to be wound,
and the chirpy cuckoo announcing its presence every hour,
with melodious cadence of bird sound,
nailed to plaster in our living room,
winning accolades of innumerable visitors,
is our unfailingly loyal cuckoo clock.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJBKALMNFNOPQ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101 0110111110 101100111001 1111010100101 010111101 010110110 01011010111 11100101 101010101 0100100110 00111010010 0101000101111 11101001011 101101001111 10111011 11101010111 0010101011010010 1010010111 1110010101 1010101000100 11001001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 919 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 756 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 144 |
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