Tomorrow Used To Know A Boy



Just-born Jonas, hillbilly boy
Sweet Cornland is his home
Oats and blue wildflowers stretch
From Kewanee to Macomb

Time creeps slowly, childhood's dash
Dogs from puppies grow
The tavern's malted barley mash
The high school's talent show

Somewhere else is like a dream
Shades of black and milky white
Gentle breezes, bubbling streams
The road curves into granite night

Rock me gently to and fro
Squirrels and sparrows spry
Sun rolls into evening's glow
The boy is countri-fied

No place like home, nowhere to roam
A country stream's soft ebb and flow
Far off, away, tall buildings glow
A simpler life, he'll never know
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Submitted by TomLoftus on February 14, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXX BCBC XDXD CXCD ACCC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 597
Words 104
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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