Analysis of MANY POEETS HAVE WRITTEN EULOGIES
Many Poets Have Written Eulogies
If my dreams had not reached for the sky
while my actions had not slogged along
corny, confused, and wary.
If my days had not worn clothes
dated, wrinkled & weary.
If my youth was not lost on star-gazing
or if Fate had toiled harder without lingering
in less bright & other-directed ways,
I might not wallow now in this buttery haze
better known as old age
to close out in solitude, my days.
If I live to be one hundred and ten
would I see love affairs, intended
or coincidental, turn the 7th-year bend
& in false promises never end?
If that would be the settled case
then please carve on the polished face
of my tombstone, a worldly grace,
He saw things others didn’t.
Lend me in my final peace the power
of my elegiac soul to atone
for paths I’ve taken against the norm.
Scheme | X XXAXABBCCXC XDEEFFFDXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010110100 111111101 111011101 1001010 1111111 101010 1111111110 111111001100 011100101 111101011001 101111 11101011 1111111001 111101010 10010101111 01100101 11110101 11110101 1110101 111101 1101101010 1111101 111100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 817 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 11, 11 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
About this poem
Aging while still working hard, living alone, divorces long ago finalized, & surviving cancer while your sweet kids are still growing, one sometimes gets nostalgic, as in this poem.
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