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Tick, tick it goes so quick

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Tick, tick time goes so quick.
Tick, tock it's now 12.00 o'clock.
Was that what life was all about?
For now my time has just run out!

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Short poem on the brevity of life

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Submitted by royston on April 26, 2023

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Scheme ABCC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 134
Words 31
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
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