Analysis of Words Forever Young
As my body stoops with age,
youth lulls upon the page
Where words forever young,
cry willful to be sung
As daylight quickly passes,
I greet night a friend at last
With memories deeply grained
—reborn in verse again
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)
| Scheme | AA BB XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110111 110101 110101 110111 111010 1110111 1100101 110101 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 249 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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