Analysis of Worry not whilst you're away

Nicholas Smith 2002 (Stony Brook)



Don't worry about us
Enjoy your time away; Remember
life is not a race


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 110011 011101010 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 70
Words 14
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 55
Words per stanza (avg) 14

About this poem

Just something to inspire people life isn't a thing to race through in one straight line and just take things at their own pace with all the breaks they earned.

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Written on May 25, 2022

Submitted by Nic_Knack819 on May 25, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Nicholas Smith

Just another person on the roadtrip we all call life with the hopes to see, do, enjoy, and learn from everything there is at every stop of the way be it a new location discovered, detour taken, even the pitstops we stopped by along the way. Whilst always hopeful that I can say it was worthwhile at the end of the trip more…

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