Analysis of Tempus Fugit (Time Flies)



They don't make time the way they did
When I was just a little kid.
Back then, time was invisible
And seldom was it ever dull.
It moved so slow, I learned to feel
The hands that made the time so real.
At school, the clock was friend and foe
By saying when to come and go.
Yes, time is very strange to me.
I can't control how it will be
But I can use it like a tool,
Especially at work or school.


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 11110111 11110101 11110100 01011101 11111111 01110111 11011101 11011101 11110111 11011111 11111101 0101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 395
Words 90
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 299
Words per stanza (avg) 84

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Written on July 08, 2023

Submitted by stevec.24118 on July 08, 2023

Modified by stevec.24118 on July 08, 2023

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