Analysis of Times Refusal
Youth takes my hand and holds me back,
as old age points the way
Unwilling yet to leave this Spring,
as Winter calls my name
The image in the mirror fresh,
the one my eyes now see
Of Lochinvar and Lancelot,
in dreamlike fantasy
The children see me older though,
their children older still
My spouse afraid I can’t accept,
what time and seasons will
I hold on tight to wings that splay,
o’er fields both green and gold
And shun the backstairs of my fate,
—refusing to get old
(Trumbull Connecticut: February, 2017)
Scheme | XX XX XA XA XB XB BC XC A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 111101 01011111 110111 01000101 011111 11010 01100 01011101 110101 11011101 110101 11111111 111101 0101111 010111 100100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 521 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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