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My intention broken down line for line:
Whoever made this thing was mad;
The pendulum, whoever made the concept of time was probably insane.
whatever planned it was assured.
Planned = Death, death is now something that can be planned upon, it's impending. It's assured.
I know it wouldn’t make me glad
to hold and make my life secured.
Imagery used to disguise the real meaning. The narrator is saying that it would make them glad to know they are going to die. That it wouldn't make them glad to create such a thing.
Behaving like a deadly fan
I saw it stroke within its air.
An allusion to the Reaper's sickle.
The gilded wood belied its plan;
it swept its path with stoic care.
The imperturbability of time, the invariable motion of it. The pendulum is beautiful, but it's only to dissuade one to recognize its awful power over your life.
I could ignore its face with time,
Used to throw the reader off again. Not the face of the pendulum, but rather completing the metaphor of the pendulum as TIME. It faces time, because it is TIME. Instead of the noun face, the verb.
but I will always see its parts,
Parts of time. Parts of the clock. Parts of aging, etc.
and that won’t change its adage chime:
It ends before it even starts.
Life ends before it even starts. That's all it's saying.
This is the intent I wrote with...of course I could go on to explain this further, but I just wanted everyone to know the gist of it.
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