Analysis of Two Old Men



Two Old Men.

I love my President.
He is an epic thriller.
Whatever he does, or does not do,
thrills to the depths of the soul.

I was 23 in '83 when I finished my degree, He was running the country.

I graduated, finished a 32-year career, retired 3 years ago,
He is still running the country.

He is an epic thriller.
Now, the country has evolved global- thriller!

I'll miss him when he's gone - the depths and torrents of his streaming eight-year thrill!

Or, should I frequent his domicile for the regular doses of the fiery thrills to which I am now so addicted?
.....even as we have become two Senior citizens...two old men?
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Scheme a xBxx c xc Bb x xa
Poetic Form
Metre 111 11110 1111010 10111111 1101101 11011101011110010 110010010101101 11110010 1111010 10101011010 111111010101110111 11110111010010101001111111010 1011101110111 1
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 638
Words 139
Sentences 15
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 1, 2, 2, 1, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 68
Words per stanza (avg) 17

About this poem

A short socio- political narrative poem, that draws out and paints a cinematographic picture of a leadership style and its impact on a people over an epoch of time

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Written on April 27, 2023

Submitted by suanu_a on April 27, 2023

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Suanu Anyekere

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