Analysis of A spring morning walk



After spending months in a hospital
 bed.
Wondering whether I would live..
 or hear something I would dread.
It felt good to be out walking on a morning such as this
Looking across the creek its waters clearing of the early morning mist
Striding through the rich gosamers festuned o're the dew soaked grass
Listening to a skylark singing as it climbs above the path.
Hearing the clock chiming from the old church belfry
Pleased that life as been kind to me and that I'm once again fit and healthy.
God and the devil shook the dice of life and casually threw the bones.
They wanted me to visit while they sat in judgement on their thrones.
But now my stomach is mended and my aching heart bypassed.
I hope this mortal frame of mine is stong enough to last.
Three score years and ten they say. But who is keeping tally.
A mans as old as he feels and I feel young today as I walk above the river valley


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 884
Words 171
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 45
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 713
Words per stanza (avg) 171
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Bertie C Stubbs

Born in Cheshire England. I now live with my Cornish wife in Duporth Cornwall. Where I write and go boating as often has I can more…

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