Analysis of Time Races
TIME RACES
I can’t remember the color of my mom’s old Studebaker or the kind of jeans I wore that year.
But I remember lilacs sweet and thick outside my bedroom window.
And I remember quite clearly racing down North Hambden hill on my bike with the wind whistling past my ears.
I wish I’d known then that the years would fly by just as fast…
I might have listened to the whippoorwill more intently at dusk to capture his melody for the building of dreams that are today's memories.
Roller skates as a child were abandoned for pom-poms and prom dates.
Playing Yahtzee or Cribbage on the porch during a thunderstorm gave way to jeeps, corsages and letting my hair fly free from the back of
a motorcycle…as the wind would race.
I sometimes still feel the rush of wind past my ears as an unexpected surprise while walking the beach.
I pay more attention now…I know how time races, so I am collecting these treasures for tomorrow’s memories.
Scheme | XX X X X A X XX X A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110 110100101111100101111111 110101101111110 0101011010111111110110111 11111101111111 1111010110101111011001010111101100 1011010010111011 101110101100101111101011111011 010010111 101110111111110100111001 1110101111110111010110101100 |
Characters | 1,012 |
Words | 190 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 68 |
Words per line (avg) | 15 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
This poem offers a wistful glance at the passing of time and the importance of paying attention to it.
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Written on September 05, 2021
Submitted by DRCJWilliams on November 08, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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