Analysis of 70s Teenagers



We knew how to be kids in the 70s,
Playing outside every day,
We made our fun with what we had,
Skip rope, pogo stick, stilts even climbing a tree,
We had no fear, if you got hurt you got up and carried on,
No running to mum.

Our mates lived down the street or nearby,
Not online miles away,
We would meet up and chat face to face,
Not like today kids chat on the laptop,
In the 70s there where no computers, play station or handheld games,
We watched the tv read a book or played a game.

The telephone was attached to the wall, no moving around,
Privacy was a no no on your call,
The tv had three channels  BBC 1, 2 and itv,
If you was lucky enough to have a tv,
Most had a black and white, if you had money it was a coloured one.

Central heating was a coal fire downstairs,
Been brave running down to get dresses,
Or under the ..... blankets upstairs,
Frost on the inside windows boy it was cold,
I really dont miss that part of it at all.

Respect for your elders was a big thing,
It was mr and mrs or aunty and uncle,
If you misbehaved it was "wait till your father gets home",
Now I would carry on with out consequence,
Life was so much more simple in the 70s,


Scheme ABXCXX XBXXXX XDXCX EXEXD XXXXA
Poetic Form
Metre 111111001 10111001 111011111 11111101001 111111111110101 11011 1011101111 11101 111101111 110111101 0011110101101111 110111011101 01010110111001 1001011111 01111100101 111100111011 11010111110110101 10101011011 111011110 11001001 11001101111 11011111111 0111101011 111001011010 1101111111011 11110111100 1111110001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,148
Words 236
Sentences 6
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 179
Words per stanza (avg) 47

About this poem

Memories of being a teenager in the mid to late 70s

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Written on 2020

Submitted by Alwaysskint on September 05, 2021

Modified on April 13, 2023

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Tracy Mcfayden

I'm 56 single mum to two 20+ lads. I used to craft and make jewellery but due to rheumatoid arthritis I had to stop. In 2020 when i was forced to stay home due to being immunosuppressive I was bored. One night having flash backs about the day I had to put my dog to sleep I started getting all these thoughts so wrote it down and it became my first freestyle poem and those words still come. I have my book simple poetry waiting to be published as an ebook on kobo and I am nearly finished with my second one simply poetry. I love horror movies especially zombie, I also believe in the spirit world and used to read tarot cards. I love dogs and have a Jack Russell called butch. more…

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