Analysis of A Season of Reflection



Guess it’s safe to say
I’m now middle aged
Fifty-three years old
Every day numbered and paged

You can call me old fashioned
And you can call me old fart
Now it’s time to rewind
With a smile I’ll go back to start

I’ll relive the good ole days
 Thank God my memory’s still intact
Sometimes like a fish I’m caught on a line
Reeled into flashback

Memories flood my mind
Like an album of photographs
My how the times have changed
With a hearty chuckle it makes me laugh

I didn’t know it at the time
That all my memories I’d save as a collection
And the time will come for me now and then
A season of reflection

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Scheme XAXA XBCB XXXX CXXX XDED E
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 11101 10111 10011001 1111110 0111111 111110 10111111 1010111 1111101 0110111101 1011 100111 1110110 110111 1010101111 1111101 1111001110010 0011111101 0101010 10110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 646
Words 128
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 84
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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DanceOfThePoet'sPen

Guess you could say I'm a self taught poet. I started writing poetry as a means of dealing with the emotions of finding my Birthmother's obituary and grave site after searching for 10 years. I continued writing and over the course of the last 20 years I've become comfortable in how I write. You'll notice I tend to write a lot about nostalgia and old memories. Hey, when you round the corner of 60 years, you start thinking a lot about the past and where you've been. One of my subjects I write about is love, but I try to write of other things too. I've lived on the south shore of Massachusetts for all of my 64 years. But I love all of New England. Aside from writing poetry, I also love photography and have quite a collection of old antique cameras. Baseball, football, muscle cars and car shows are also some of my interests. Not too crazy about Winter. Spring & Summer are my favorite seasons. more…

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