Analysis of Growing Old



Daily vitamins, popped with care,
A chest pain that causes a scare,

Receding hair lines, not to mention the gums,
Getting tummy aches and popping the Tums,

An achy back, after just a little work,
A kink in the neck, from a sudden jerk,

Prune juice gulped with much disdain,
Getting a new friend, the walking cane,

A cold now hits with such great force,
You'd swear you'd just been kicked by a horse,

Routine visits to the doctor are now the norm,
Be it in fair weather or a raging storm,

Yes, growing old is certainly not fun,
When you start to see the fading sun,

But, even with all the aches and pains, that
you'd love to put asunder,
Well, I'm guessin' it surely does beat being
six feet under!


Scheme AA BB CC DD EE FF GG XHXH
Poetic Form
Metre 10100111 01111001 01011111001 1010101001 11011010101 0100110101 1111101 100110101 01111111 111111101 011010101101 11011010101 1101110011 111110101 1101101011 1111010 1111101110 1110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 680
Words 132
Sentences 1
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 67
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on April 26, 2023

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