Analysis of Golden Age



Fading woman,
The bigger the age the little she exists.
Working overdose,
To keep you working, how many times have you almost?

Hands reach out,
Opening your eyes and lifting your head.
Visibly alive
But internally dead.

You reach out now
As you’ve came around,
But the hands disappear
Through the merciless crowd.

The cut-off age awaits.
They kick your crawling body over the finish line,
You’re of no use.
You’ve done your time.

Physically set free,
Mentally encaged.
You never understood what was so golden
About the golden age.


Scheme AXXB XCXC XXXX XXXX XBAX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (25%)
Etheree  (20%)
Quatrain  (20%)
Metre 1010 01001010101 1010 111101101111 111 1001101011 10001 101001 1111 11101 10101 101001 011101 1111010100101 1111 1111 100011 1001 1100111110 010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 542
Words 110
Sentences 10
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 84
Words per stanza (avg) 18

About this poem

This poem is about the mistreatment of many acting stars during the golden age.

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Submitted by Keiraarcher444 on February 28, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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