Analysis of His bubble just burst



I remember Larry and how he never liked to tarry.
He'd always said that time was money.
And then he'd turn and hurry on his way.

He'd go to his job as a soda fountain jerk,
each and every day...never took time,,,but to work.
"There's no way to earn money wasting time on a quirk,"
he'd say.

He said once, that he didn't have time for a woman,
he said they cost too much ta-boot...
"Just pouring money through you hand...I'll stay as I am."

He spent his time this way steadilly increasing his worth.
Up until the going out of business of Woolworth...
he found himself unemployed with a sad, self-worth.

Of course he had all the money he'd been saving,
nevertheless he became homeless no longer caring...
telling everyone he'd lost his job from economic swaying.

After that he never worked again, and bought new friends,
Trouble was he always flashed around the money he'd lend.
That wasn't a good practice...thieves like money to spend.

Well they buried old Larry today...the killers got forty dollars.
A knife in the stomach as the thieves ran away...was no honor.
Well, old Larry has gone away to where it all began...
hope Saint Peter lets him through if not he'll holler.

Hard to figure some people and I believe Larry was the worst.
He could've had other jobs but I guess his bubble just burst.
Well his money couldn't go with him...wonder if he cursed.


Scheme AAB CCCB XXX DDD EEE XFF XGXG HHH
Poetic Form
Metre 101010011101110 11111110 0111010111 111111010101 1010011111 1111110101101 11 1111110111010 11111111 110101111111 111111101011 101010111011 11010110111 111110101110 0011011011010 10101111101010 1011101010111 1011110101011 11001111011 111011011011010 01001010111110 11101101111101 111011111110 1110110010110101 100110111111011 111010111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,332
Words 253
Sentences 27
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 129
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Lucian Tower

I began writing Lyrics, short stories, and poetry some 43-years-ago. When I was in high school, during the 60s, I met the great Robert Frost. He spoke to me about my real elementary attempts at writing and poetry. He took some time with me, after assembly hall and told me to not stop writing. Now, that I have been around the world as a USMarine, and have lived through 2-years of the Vietnam War, I still am writing. Now at 63-years-old, I am enjoying being on Poetry.com with you all. I was born 12/21/1948, in Worcester, MA. There I began trying to write lyrics at 5-years-old, on my Grandmother's piano -- this has been a life-time ambition/Hobby for me. I live now in Gallatin, TN, and I am disabled/retired from the vietnam war.This is how I move around and, hopefully, meet others of like mind/spirit. I am mostly American Indian and 4th Generation Irish in the USA. My poetry are moments, which I've seen, and lived during my life. I believe allpoetry are photos, or glimpses into moments of life. Styles have changed over the years, and it is in reading/listening to others' poems that give poets ideas and imaginations to build their own style. This is who I am, as a man, who simply loves the written arts/preforming arts. Keep on writing!Lucian Tower. more…

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