Heroic: part 4



He settled down on a large estate
Married well and put on weight
Never failing to tell his stories
Of his travels and his glories
Until his early years turned late

To honor him they commissioned an anthology
With all his adventures listed chronologically
The house of records bound it in leather
A silk strand in the spine held it together
Instead of heroic tales it read like a Necrology

About this poem

Part 1 https://www.poetry.com/poem/115569/heroic%3A-part-1 Part 2 https://www.poetry.com/poem/115570/heroic%3A-part-2 Part 3 (under construction)

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Written on January 28, 2021

Submitted by muzz on December 11, 2021

Modified by muzz on December 11, 2021

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABBA CCDDC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 389
Words 71
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 5

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