Analysis of Elegy of the elderly

Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)



The life of an elderly person
Is merely a simpler version
They move slowly and tinker
Sometimes giving a wink
Their enterage their aid
Yet no longer heavily paid
A path for them was laid
And with time it decayed
They sit in one place
Grounded in white lace
Looking at the sky
Forgetting its time to die
They see their youthful family
In all its residual energy
And sometimes they leave their body
Until you visit and they come back to thee.


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Poetic Form
Metre 011110010 110010010 1110010 011001 1111 11101001 011111 011101 11011 10011 10101 0101111 11110100 0110100100 00111110 01110011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 440
Words 83
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 357
Words per stanza (avg) 83
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Written on June 20, 2022

Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on June 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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