Farewell To My Youth
...Where did she go so quickly?
Skipping and dreaming,
And crying and numb...
I would have said good-bye,
If I only knew
That she was leaving
In the abyss of autumn,
She begins to run...
I can almost see her now,
The child so lost and weeping
In her pretty pink nightgown,
Her mind much too kind for keeping;
And so I close my eyes,
Afar so fast she's fading!
There goes my Youth, my child,
Smiling as she's waving...
Fare ye well, my ghost,
I have been abandoned.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 447 |
Words | 89 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
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