Analysis of The Steadfast March of Time
The saddest thing about Time, I think,
is how it marches on.
All steady, it doesn’t miss a beat;
each moment to the next is gone.
Time’s stalwart march keeps changing things.
Constant, it leaves nothing alone.
Fast or slow, but reliably,
it alters houses, rivers, and stone.
Time will turn a well-built home
into rotting, falling-down logs
and shift or dry up rivers,
leaving parched land or stagnant bogs.
The saddest thing about Time, I think,
is its relentless one-way track.
No use bargaining for a change of pace,
or begging for a brief step back.
We cannot keep a precious hour
or save people dear to our hearts,
so we who care are left bereft
when Time pulls us apart.
We may think our lives important
and our deeds uniquely great,
but Time will soon erase us.
For no one does Time wait.
We each are just a tiny blip
in the eternal stream of Time.
In eons hence, will there be a hint
of our work, our thoughts, our rhymes?
The saddest thing about Time, I think
is how it marches on.
Experience each moment, dearly,
for as quickly as it comes, it’s gone.
Scheme | ABxc xded xxxx Afxf xxxx xgxg xxxx ABec |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (38%) |
Metre | 010101111 111101 11011101 11010111 11011101 10111001 11110100 110101001 1110111 01101011 0111110 10111101 010101111 11010111 1110010111 11010111 110101010 111011101 11111101 111101 111101010 01010101 1111011 111111 11110101 00010111 010111101 1101101101 010101111 111101 010011010 111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,084 |
Words | 227 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
I think a lot about time and have written several poems about it. The first lines of this came to me as I was walking in the beautiful spring countryside.
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