Analysis of July 5 (All Your Life)--2
Age, 'old' that is, is 'memento mori'
Beckoning faster than my running after you...
Just to hear your voice.
It hurts that my reckoning of my days...
Running is slower than your becoming
An unreachable star.
And take this "ill or well."
When you were baptized, the priest told us:
"This baby is God's angel.
When she is grown--healthy and strong,
She belongs--with His Grace,
To both of you--as a hand and shoulder...
In your decrepit years."
Must I wait for that day when I say,
"Help me, I can't get up?"
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1111101010 100101110101 11111 1111100111 1011011010 101001 011111 110010111 1101110 11111001 101111 1111101010 010101 111111111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 492 |
| Words | 95 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 374 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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