Analysis of Chronos

Seth Haynes Warner 1984 (North Pole, Alaska)



Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock…

The revolution of the second hand,
In orbit around the clock face,
Fulfilling its intended purpose and,
Deleting seconds at a steady pace.

These seconds become minutes,
Accumulating into hours, days, then years,
Until we reach our corporeal limit,
And receive that visit we’ve long feared.

But how do we confront the end with grace?
We must make proper use of our time,
Knowing the clock is a tool to embrace;
Accepting that limited days are by design.

Time waits for no woman nor man,
So disregard the years, days, and hours.
Instead we must focus on the second hand,
Living each moment with vigor. Empowered.


Scheme X ABXB XXXX BXBX XXAX
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 001010101 01001011 0101010100 0101010101 1100110 01000110111 011110110 001110111 1111010111 1111011101 1001101101 010110011101 11111011 101011010 01111010101 10110110010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 667
Words 135
Sentences 9
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Written on April 09, 2020

Submitted by sethhayneswarner on April 11, 2022

Modified on March 22, 2023

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Seth Haynes Warner

Seth is an Iraq War veteran, having served as an Infantryman in both the US Marine Corps and the US Army. He started writing in December 2021 as a form of therapy. He spends most of his free time with his children and on mountaintops. more…

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