Danbury

Richard Poor 2956 (Somewhere)



The days of summer played
Lakes of cool sweet water
Tanned brown in the sun
Rich if you had a quarter,

Youth barefooted, hot tar roads
Wandering wherever adventure took
Life was all in this moment
A fishing line and a hook,

Rides up old rte. 7 thru town, country
Along where the ' tonic flows
In fall with colors bursting
To try to understand what God knows...
R. Poor

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Written on June 14, 2022

Submitted by rpoor7 on June 15, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XBXB XCXCX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 370
Words 75
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5

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