Analysis of Tick Tock
To joy he runs,
To pain he crawls.
His needles sow
The broken hearts
He plods like a turtle,
Always edged to go faster
But when he grows wings,
Who will run after?
| Scheme | ABCDEFGF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 1111 1101 0101 111010 111110 11111 11110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 156 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on December 15, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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