Analysis of Arrogance of Youth
Inflated confidence,
Youthful wisdom untried by time.
Experiences far beyond the age.
Like the North star, beliefs guide through the ravages of life,
Some survive, unchanged, some die a necessary death.
Eight decades gone by.
A life not planned by years but directed by feelings.
Feeling and responding to the moment.
Kept upright by a core of purpose
Resembling the tensile strength of lead.
Some ideas that stemmed from the arrogance of youth
Stood the test of time.
Will the scale of balances show value?
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKBL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010100 10100111 0100010101 10110111010011 101011101001 10111 0111111010110 1000101010 101101110 0100010111 1010111010011 10111 1011100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 507 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 409 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
About this poem
This idea stems from the aftermath of writing a memoir.
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Written on April 28, 2022
Submitted by bettyl.73819 on May 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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