This is an analysis of On Time by Jonathan Swift.

Ever eating, never cloying,
All-devouring, all-destroying,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 10101010 101001010 1010110 1110111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4