Analysis of Tick, tick it goes so quick
Tick, tick time goes so quick.
Tick, tock it's now 12.00 o'clock.
Was that what life was all about?
For now my time has just run out!
| Scheme | ABCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 111101 11111101 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 134 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Short poem on the brevity of life
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