Analysis of Just A Tick In Time



Tick tock tick tock
Just a tick in time
Eyes follow hands around the clock
And I’m obsessed to rhyme

I need to write
I need to express
No matter the hour, day or night
These foolish notions I must confess

And to one, it might be nonsense
Yet to another
It just could be brilliance
Either way, it brings a smile to my mother

Staring at the contents of the refrigerator
Wasted time, well maybe so
Now it’s a minute later
Than it was a minute ago

Sometimes I’m perplexed
Between what I just did
And what I’ll do next
Guess I’m just an analytical kid

Have you never been split between yes and no?
Such triviality making up your mind
A decision sooner or later you know
But at the moment, you struggle to find

I ask forgiveness for wasting your time
And send you back to your previous endeavor
I’ll continue on with mine
As the second hand ticks on and on forever

Copyright © Dance Of The Poet's Pen 2006


Scheme ABAB CDCD XEXE EFEF GHGH FIFI BEXE X
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 10101 11010101 010111 1111 11101 110010111 110101101 01111110 11010 111110 10111011110 101010100100 1011101 1101010 11101001 01101 011111 01111 111101001 11101101101 1010010111 00101011011 1101011011 1101011011 011111100010 1010111 101011101010 10110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 887
Words 174
Sentences 2
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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DanceOfThePoet'sPen

Guess you could say I'm a self taught poet. I started writing poetry as a means of dealing with the emotions of finding my Birthmother's obituary and grave site after searching for 10 years. I continued writing and over the course of the last 20 years I've become comfortable in how I write. You'll notice I tend to write a lot about nostalgia and old memories. Hey, when you round the corner of 60 years, you start thinking a lot about the past and where you've been. One of my subjects I write about is love, but I try to write of other things too. I've lived on the south shore of Massachusetts for all of my 64 years. But I love all of New England. Aside from writing poetry, I also love photography and have quite a collection of old antique cameras. Baseball, football, muscle cars and car shows are also some of my interests. Not too crazy about Winter. Spring & Summer are my favorite seasons. more…

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