Analysis of Retirement
1976 - A young buck, in compulsion, did rush into work life
2016 - So swiftly come to pass retirement presently in rife!
Was I caught in a 40-year bubble dream?
Capsuled in a variety of roles down life stream
Puny Clerk in the corporate cage, to Inspecting Cop
Zigzagged many a slot in Khaki and civvies to occupy a momentary top
Travels did take me round the globe
Thrusting images vivid up the temporal lobe
The Good, bad, ugly and beautiful I meet
Souls, White, black, Brown and yellow did greet
Adventures here and there a galore
Not realizing the stallion in me would mellow!
Passing the nearby Palk Straits
To find friends fair, beyond and around the Malacca Straits
Opportunity to rub shoulders
With Officials, Officers, and Diplomats as big as boulders!
With decades four, of vocational labor
Reflecting what memorable images in mind harbor
Not knowing whether to sing or cry out in wonder
Memories good and bad in retirement to ponder!
Fresh life styles dreaming to pursue in Health
The new revised version in wealth
Zones of comfort lived off to date, seem to recede backward
With a pension from the state, to look forward!
In retirement, am I on the starting blocks for another run?
What awaits the track ahead, only the Good Lord knows, but none!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110010110111 110111010010001 111001101 100010011111 10100100110101 1010010100111001001 10111101 1010010101001 01110010011 111101011 010101001 110001001110 1001111 11110100100101 01001110 101010001011110 10111010010 010110001000110 1101011111010 10010100100110 1111010101 01011001 11101111110110 10101011110 00100111010110101 101010110011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,285 |
Words | 245 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
Composed in 2016 after retirement from active service and wondering what holds for me there after.
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