Analysis of The Growing Trees

Neil McLeod 1947 (Oxford)



The Growing TreesWhen I was a younger man, I looked out of the windowWell established conifersLevel with a tiled roof Gazing through the glass.As those years come and pass.Crowns stark again the sky.My life is passing by.


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Poetic Form
Metre 01011101011111010101101110101111011010111101
Characters 221
Words 40
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 180
Words per line (avg) 37
Letters per stanza (avg) 180
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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Submitted by NeilMcLeod on April 14, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Neil McLeod

Born in Oxford, raised in Kenya, past winner of Los Slamgeles Poetry Slam and author of abitingchance.blogspot.comand "The First Thanksgiving".Doctor McLeod is a performing poet who has recited at Highland Games, dinners and Burns Nights for the last 36 years. He is happily married, lives and works in Los Angeles,has three children, and practices as a dentist on Sunset Boulevard:http://www.drneilmcleod.com/He can be contacted by e-mail at drneilmcleod@yahoo.com and will willingly entertain requests to share his work with permission. more…

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