Analysis of As I Grow



Sometimes whilst listening intenly to
the summer breeze
A wise old voice chants these words,
"Come find me, come find me youthful friend."
I turn about startled, yet the night reveals no foe.
The distant man calls from some far mountaintop
inticing and luring my fantasy.
I query within myself, "who speaks thus?"
Knowing the answer I quaintly smile,
turning back to face the traveled miles,
delicately whispering into the breeze,
"Come find me, come find me youthful friend."


Scheme abcDefghijbD
Poetic Form
Metre 01110011 0101 0111111 111111101 1101101010111 0101111110 10101100 110011111 100101101 101110101 10001000101 111111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 465
Words 82
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 379
Words per stanza (avg) 79
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Submitted on November 23, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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