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Time to go

Ashok Babu

To and fro
 To and fro
 Swings the pendulum
 on my clock.

 Time to go
 I hear the crow
 Wakeup call from
 the rooster c*ck

 Sure and slow,
 morning glow
 The sun ignites
 the distant rock

 Fresh and lo!
 On my toe
 ‘Tis time to take
 my morning walk

 (written in 1993)
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Submitted on August 20, 2014

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Scheme AAbc aabc aaxc aaxx x
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 254
Words 52
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
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