Don't Let Old Age Get You Down
George Cook 1934 (Lanarkshire)
Don't let old age get you down
I have often heard it told
That's OK and that is fine
If you're not the one who's old
I don't care for being old
I cannot move quite so fast
And I cannot do some things
Like I used to in the past
It's just a little harder
And that is what makes it so
Quite a little bit different
From the life I used to know
Although each day is different
On some I will bear a frown
Surely as fate will have it
Old age it will get me down
About this poem
The poem is about old age and how it affects me.
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Written on December 01, 2019
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 457 |
Words | 103 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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