Analysis of Parting Thoughts
When your journey is over and it's time for you to go
will your friends and family have your life-story to know?
Your unique experience, the times of joy and woe,
can have an accounting of the "road you had to hoe."
Have you told about childhood, the playmates at your school,
the games and activities you once considered cool?
Will they know the lessons learned, whether kindly or cruel,
or obstacles encountered and what they caused to fuel?
Speak of your adolescence and the awkward first date;
the successive employments, the jobs you thought were great.
Tell of friendships established with whom you could relate;
unfetter your awareness, reflect and ruminate.
Report on your adulthood and life-choices you made:
the posturing selected both real and masquerade.
Mention hopes and broken dreams although plans were well laid; places you were genuine and where there was charade.
Talk of mate and children and the care you had for them.
Leave some personal counsel to add to their wisdom.
Recount your costly errors their foolishness to stem.
Give perspectives on matters useful for years to come.
In your journal legacy tell of your heritage,
how your genes were passed along: progenitor's lineage.
Get into personal traits, the DNA signage:
demark characteristics from your own parentage.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101100111111 11101001111011 1010100011101 1110101011111 11101101111 0100100110101 11101011010110 11000100111110 111010001011 0010010011101 1110010111101 1101001010 011101011011 010001011001 1010101110111010100011101 1110100011111 1110010111110 0111010110011 1010110101111 0110100111100 11101011100 101100101110 010010111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,271 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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