Analysis of Not Yet
‘You’ve seen it all, done it all’
They say of the elderly like me.
I want to scream, ‘Not yet.’
They don’t know of my superpowers,
My mind encompassing the whole world,
My ability to fly to its farthest points
To trawl their treasures.
Constantly I mount mountains,
Dive deep into oceans, climb clouds,
Delve into forests, commune with wildlife.
I tiptoe amongst the sleeping,
Whisper words of solace and love,
Smooth furrowed brows and vanish
Before fresh eyes open to hopeful morns.
Sometimes I surprise the unsuspecting
when they see this young girl’s learning,
The honing of my superpowers,
The exercising, stretching of my mind
To embrace adventure, novelty, fulfillment.
Not even when I die will it be said of me,
She has seen it all, done it all,’ but
‘She did wear out several tee-shirts.
Scheme | XAXBXXBXXXCXXBCCBXX AXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 111010011 111111 11111010 110100011 101001111101 11110 1001110 11011011 101101011 1101010 10111001 1101010 0111101101 011010010 11111110 01011010 010010111 101010100010 110111111111 111111111 11111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 817 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 19, 3 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 313 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem to vie against the trope that life is over for the elderly.
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