Analysis of Growing Old In Good Time
Like an extension of my own nervous system,
your fingers to my hand, that close in scope.
We're a breath n' heartbeat apart in wisdom,
temper of same trials and born of same hope.
Your the one I'm growing old with it's foretold,
our history spans the shared joys n' the pain.
We have withstood and partaken it all in bold,
n' hammered our shield in gild to ever remain.
All compatible traits, we refined, like ilk to kin,
the opposite inclines, we smoothed out to flat.
Traversed a path in fine time, the goal to win,
now goodness pervades our getting to all 'that'.
I hold your hand on our final journey to home,
we've done well, our children stout, to excell.
As age calls our shady reprise of life on loan,
I see only light on trail ahead n' love to prevail!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF XGXG |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110101111010 1101111101 1011101010 10111001111 10111011101 101001011101 1101011101 1101010111001 1010011011111 01000111111 10010110111 110011010111 1111110101011 1111010111 1111010011111 11101110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 756 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Font size:
Submitted on August 03, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
- 44 sec read
- 3 Views
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Growing Old In Good Time" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 27 Apr. 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/72754/growing-old-in-good-time>.
Discuss this Tracy Bollinger poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In