Analysis of Before You Get Older
Don't plan to look younger
Let yourself age gracefully
People will begin to wonder
How you managed your years so successfully
Scheme | ABAB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111110 1011100 10101110 11101110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 125 |
Words | 21 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
It's a personal Birthday poem
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Written on September 20, 2023
Submitted on September 21, 2023
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