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
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Submitted on August 03, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Tracy Bollinger

Always liked to write and have written poems periodically over the years. I've never shared them withanyone except for immediate family. Decided to take the plunge and put some out 'there'. But bearwith me, I don't really know what I'm doing. This is therapy of sorts and I hope to let go of the need to rhyme. It's a mental condition. I recently found out my grandmother used to rhyme all herletters to anyone. Go figure. I hope you all enjoy my ranting! I do like what I've seen other's post. more…

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