Analysis of A year Goes bye



A year seems long
To a child in school
Who dreams of summer
And a swimming pool
A year seems long
For a teen inept
Who dreams of times
When they accept
To catapult
Become adult
A year seems long
To become a wife
To marry joy
To start a life
A year seems long
To await a child
To become a parent
To become more mild
But as time goes on
And days pass by
No longer long
A year will fly
A day seems short
As years go on
A memory fades
Another dawn
A year seems short
To those who ail
And wonder why
The body fail
Why they wished
The time away
Now hoping for
Just one more day
A year seems short
Not one but all
As lives pass thru
From spring to fall
A year seems short
And many go
As we look back
With pride and woe
A year seems short
And so sublime
As we succumb
To sands of time


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Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 796
Words 188
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 46
Lines Amount 46
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 609
Words per stanza (avg) 168

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Reflective of life and the passage of time

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Written on August 26, 2023

Submitted by conawayaceus2 on August 26, 2023

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Lisa Palais

Lisa Palais is a retired business manager and artist from southern New Jersey. more…

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