Analysis of The Baby Boomers Of Paradise
Those were the days my friend, how blessed we were
Although, in past quandam days, knew it not.
Home to us was warm and dry, sound and safe.
Not called on to fight, we had years to play,
Free of conscripted combat ~ with time to kill;
Time to learn, time to listen, time to speak.
Clothes were brightly colourful and charming,
Hair long and flowing ~ blowin' in the wind.
Money no object ~ or so it would seem.
The world appeared to be as a fairground,
A hall of mirrors in which to reflect;
The tunnel of love was always with us.
We played our music and we rocked-'n'-rolled
Our hearts evoked by transistors not sense;
Twisting the night away, far away, lost.
We thought those days, my friend, would never end,
Timeless days of golden spring and summer.
There were no clouds to keep secret the skies.
Yet time moves on and takes its undue toll.
Some of us are carried off with the tide,
Others remain stranded on the surf's shore.
"How lucky to be here!" I often muse
For now I know a generation raised
Was never conceived to grow up at all.
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Metre | 1001111110 10111111 1111101101 1111111111 11010101111 1111110111 10101010 110101001 1011011111 010111101 0111001101 010111111 11101001111 10101101011 1001011011 1111111101 1011101010 1011111001 1111011011 1111101101 1001101011 1101111101 111100101 1100111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,030 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
A 2021 look at the post WWII years which were a wonderful time to grow up and live in the UK
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