Analysis of The Pause
Jeffrey Hopkins 1959 (Bay Shore, NY)
By Jeff Hopkins
I take a pause to ponder life.
She's moving on much faster.
The way things are, I'm satisfied,
Just wish I could outlast her.
I've had a mixed bag of wondrous things,
A few I could not even dream of.
The places I've been, the things I have seen,
Like pallets of thoughts, dreams are made of.
But throughout all the while,
I am able to smile,
Throughout good times
and times that are bad.
It's a gift I was given,
As my life goes on living.
I keep bad from turning to sad.
| Scheme | X XAXA XBXB CCXD XXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 11011101 1101110 0111110 111110 110111101 011111011 0101101111 110111111 101101 111011 0111 01111 1011110 1111110 11111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 502 |
| Words | 117 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
This is a short poem about some of my life and my attitude.
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Written on May 30, 2019
Submitted by luckejeff on March 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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