Analysis of Don’t Age!



As you get older, hard to bend
The body slower nears the end
Still, senses keen, clever sensation
But mostly little things give elation
Too lazily; get up a bit late
A sparse but healthy breakfast made
To watch others bustle, ever busy
With advertising, wars, to make you dizzy
Observe the beauty of dark clouds and rain
Know nature's cycle will repeat again
Everywhere new invention and new tools
And mankind’s wisdom matched by fools
To age is so inevitable, evolution, little choice
Just reminisce to adolescence, innocence of boys
Earn and learn wisdom with more contemplation
While sadly future lifeline is now on shortest ration


Scheme AABBCDEEFGHHIJBB
Poetic Form
Metre 11110111 01010101 110110010 1101011010 110011011 01110101 1110101010 1100111110 0101011101 1101010101 101010011 01110111 111101000010101 101101010011 1011011010 1101011111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 640
Words 108
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 518
Words per stanza (avg) 107
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Submitted by arthurweil on December 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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