What Drives Me Still
The light through
My Grandmother’s
Bedroom window
Called out to me
‘Calls out to me’
Leading me to places
Where I had to go
Revisiting me now
In my twilight years
‘In my twilight years’
Reminding me again
Of those places I’ve been
And my reasons for going
As the mileposts shone
‘And the mileposts shine’
Reaching into the distance
Where the horizon pulled
And the dawn arrived
In what drove me once
‘In what drives me still’
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2014)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 09, 2018
Modified on March 12, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | xxab b xaxC C xxxx x dxxd x b |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 472 |
Words | 82 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 4, 1, 1 |
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