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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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 02, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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