Analysis of Clock
Three hands all washing one face:
One slow, one fast, one middle pace;
Hangs or stands, running in place.
| Scheme | AAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet Triplet |
| Metre | 1111011 11111101 1111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 103 |
| Words | 19 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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