Analysis of Kickin' Rocks
Kickin' rocks down the street
rockin' with wheels on our feet,
the summer light hit just right
and school was out the whole week.
You smiled at me sweetly
with a crooked tooth-line
that I always took solace in,
and those are fond memories
before we tried cigarettes
in social minuets, before we lost friends
to moving and death, before we
had to seek our own truths
and split up and saw war
and were torn by all the world offers
which isn't the joy we knew years
ago, where, once upon a time,
sitting by the beach was 'the thing',
where we'd sneak some beers and
make a little fire in the sand with our peers.
Candy wrappers and rum and cokes,
skateboards, jump-ropes, ruined hopes,
feels like last summer I saw you but
summer passed and summers past
are all I have left of you and us
and the youth we once shared
kickin' rocks down the street.
Scheme | AabcdefghidjklmnopmqrstuvA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 1111101 0101111 0111011 111110 101011 1111100 0111100 011101 010101111 11001011 1111011 011011 001110110 11001111 01110101 10101101 111110 1010100011101 10100101 111101 111101111 1010101 111111101 001111 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 844 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 661 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 160 |
About this poem
This poem is about the nostalgia of the innocence of youth lost.
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Written on January 10, 2023
Submitted by Lynk on January 10, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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