Analysis of Time

Dean Mason 1986 (Southampton)



It’s 1:55 in the morning.
Click clack.
Click clack.
Words upon a page.
Read them back.
Check the clock.

It’s 1:59 in the morning.
Click clack.
Click clack.
Put more words upon a page.
Read them back again.
Back from the start.
Check the clock.

It’s 1 in the morning.
Panic.
Was it ever 1:59?
Two comes after 1.
Was it 12:59?
I could’ve sworn it was 1:59.
Check the clock.

Check it again.
Again.
No, it’s saying 1:03.
Where did those three minutes go?
It was 1:59. I’m sure it was.
Wasn’t it?

The words on a page remain.
But the time has changed.
Ever flowing.
Always forward, never back.

Except the clocks.
They go back.


Scheme aBBcbD aBBcexD axffghD eeaxhg xxab xb
Poetic Form
Metre 10010 11 11 10101 111 101 10010 11 11 1110101 11101 1101 101 10010 10 1110 1110 11 11111 101 1101 01 1110 1111101 111111 11 0110101 10111 1010 110101 0101 111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 639
Words 160
Sentences 33
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 6, 7, 7, 6, 4, 2
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 76
Words per stanza (avg) 20

About this poem

As a sufferer of a traumatic brain injury that effects memory, I experienced a lapse when the clocks changed. This was the result.

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Written on October 28, 2023

Submitted by music-my-savior on October 29, 2023

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Dean Mason

I'm a creative writer from the United Kingdom who suffers with a brain injury that effects memory loss after a motorcycle accident. This same accident left me with depression and anxiety, all of which I like to write about in my poetry. more…

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