Analysis of Time
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 |
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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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