Analysis of I wonder what it’s like



I wonder what it’s like to be older, wiser and grey.

As a kid we played all day without any worries.
Our imaginations took us places we’d never imagine.
So eager to get out of school only to scrape our knees.
We moved on through the pain took a napkin , wiped the blood off moved on.
No need to look in the future ,time stood still , and for a moment we’d thought this was forever, but now years flow by like a quick moving disease.
We couldn’t stop It.
Year after year day after day the worst part was my
Imagination had gone away.
A little older a little grey
It began today.
Guess I blinked too soon.
Wished my childhood away yet all it took is one simple wish.
I wondered what it was like to be 30, and a bit grey.
It’s hard to say the least,
No rewind , no pause.
Fast forward is the only option in the way.
I wondered what it was like to be older, wiser and grey.
Time can only be defined by a minuscule chapter in one persons life, one in a billion in the world we all have a book, a sense of living.
A sense of adventure, imagination, bliss....
I could keep going about it. I’d wish I could of stayed.
Being 5 had some better days.
I wondered what it was like to be older , wiser and grey
And today I stand here in hopes of a pause.
I’m not ready to age
I’m not ready to grey
I’m not ready to go


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Poetic Form
Metre 11011111101001 1011111011010 1000101110110010 110111111011101 1111011010101111 11110010111010101111010111111011001 1111 1101110101111 00101101 010100101 10101 11111 11101111111101 1101111110011 111101 11011 110101010001 110111111101001 111010110101001101100100011110101110 01101000101 11110011111111 1011101 110111111101001 00111101101 111011 111011 111011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,344
Words 288
Sentences 22
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 26
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 495
Words per stanza (avg) 134

About this poem

Not too sure. I don’t write much but that day I was feeling like life was moving too fast and for once I slowed it down with some words. Felt kind of like an escape to write what I felt.

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Written on January 31, 2021

Submitted by ricardoc.81903 on November 25, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:26 min read
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Ricardo Calderon

Husband and father of beautiful identical twins. Just trying this out I’m not much of writer just kind of throw some words on paper to see what comes of it. more…

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