Analysis of All Up In My Mind
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
All up in my mind,
The time I spend doing as I please.
Is a relief I choose peacefully.
I have already donated much space,
To have others,
Taking advantage of my willingness...
Erasing my priorities.
Not one thoughtfully of benefit replaced.
By them or anyone else.
Asking me how I feel or felt okay.
Today as I've grown older to age.
I pay more attention to this stage I live.
Not to care less about others.
But more of what I need to stay,
Gracefully growing older in my way.
Done to do with no one to approve,
What I do to choose that satisfies...
Every move I make.
To sometimes just lay in bed.
Happy that no one calls.
Or knock on my door.
Disturbing my nothing to do.
With nothing more to choose but that!
Knowing I have earned what I have.
Including blessings from God I received.
And feeling glad,
When I was much younger...
To take chances and risks.
These days I would not consider,
If I wished my mind...
Had more time to spend,
Doing stupid things like others.
Who refuse to acknowledge,
Mother Nature and the aging process...
No one attempting this can prevent!
Once a fool.
To become twice a fool.
Eventually is a fool who accepts,
Not being a fool who regrets...
Fiction to deny the truth and reality.
Is not worth the time to spend,
Reliving a past to have had it enjoyed.
Has its memories.
When left to leave where they are.
Better reminisced in comfort!
Accepting aging has done this for me!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 011110111 100111100 110101011 1110 1001011100 01010100 1110011001 111101 101111111 011111011 11101011111 11110110 11111111 1001010011 111111101 11111110 100111 1011101 101111 11111 01011011 11011111 10111111 0101011101 0101 111110 111001 11111010 11111 11111 10101110 1011010 101000101 110101101 101 101101 01000101101 11001101 1010101010 1110111 01001111101 11100 1111111 1001010 0101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,417 |
Words | 315 |
Sentences | 35 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 7, 8, 5, 12, 10, 1 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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