Analysis of The Fountain Of Youth
I am the true non-traditional student
32 years-young without a wife and kids
a single mentality hard to fathom
I bear grey hairs from wisdom or worry
hair that glows in the blacklights
at the nightclub of your average student
is it any wonder I went 0 for 3 that night?
my old friends are married with children
which leaves me the odd man out
I even feel odd at times
in this precarious situation that persists
walking around campus as the abscured
not quite comparable to my fellow classmates
I notice some of them laughing to themselves
is it their "god complex" or mine?
I have to remind myself
the world is not against me
it is me against the world
a world relishing in blue and gold
the colors of the curse
| Scheme | ABCDBAEFGHIAJKLMDNOP |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) |
| Metre | 11011010010 11010101 01001001110 1111110110 111001 1011110010 11101011111 111110110 1110111 1101111 010100010101 100110101 11100011101 11011110101 11111011 111011 0111011 1110101 011000101 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 692 |
| Words | 134 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 20 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 572 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 134 |
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Submitted on October 07, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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