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Originally Posted by Rick Mullin
Ending line four on an adjective….not very strong. Also, the clocks tick toward one appointed time—multiple clocks suggest each has its own appointed time.
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I noticed the adjective line ending, too. There should, I think, be a good reason for its employment, and I'm not sure I see it here.
As to the clocks - I took it that they were part of a bomb or multiple bombs, and would therefore have been synced to the time the vessel in the poem was blown up.