Analysis of Parting Thoughts 2



Report on your adulthood and life-choices you made:
the posturing selected
both real and masquerade.
Mention hopes and broken dreams although plans were well laid;
places you were genuine
and where there was charade.

Talk of mate and children and the care you had for them.
Leave some personal counsel
to add to their wisdom.
Recount your costly errors their foolishness to stem.
Give perspectives on matters
useful for years to come.

In your journal legacy tell of your heritage,
how your genes were passed along:
progenitor's lineage.
Get into personal traits, the DNA signage:
demark characteristics
from your own parentage.


Scheme AXAAXA BXCBXC DXDXXD
Poetic Form
Metre 011101011011 0100010 11001 101010111011 1010100 011101 1110100011111 1110010 111110 0111010110011 1010110 101111 0110100111100 1110101 1100 101100101110 010010 111100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 610
Words 101
Sentences 8
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 170
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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