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
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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Written on September 27, 2023

Submitted by moyagoatley on September 27, 2023

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