Analysis of Two Dylan’s and My Movie
Two Dylan’s and My Movie
If life is a movie, I’m obsessed with the ending
Especially as the end-credits approach, with the dying of the light
But on this you can bet, as I’m not quite there yet
I’ll not be going gentle into anyone’s good night
I suspect that it is not death that most of us fear
More likely obscurity, disinterest, forgotten next year
To have lived a life that evoked no recollection
Is the bane of existence – and St. Peter’s rejection
Whatever to do? There is one thing that’s true
We create our legacy while living….
And we earn our cosmic affection.
Bob Dylan wrote “He who is not busy being born is busy dying”
Dylan Thomas reminds us we are all dying, and to never ever stop trying
Like many, I squandered Act 1 of my cinematic script
Caught up in the minutia, for empathy/sympathy ill-equipped
But better reborn late than not at all,
I’m rewriting my script with this clarion call
My movie’s recast – with new lines, and old characters past
The ending’s rewritten – cast mates & viewers hopefully smitten
They may love or hate me - but memories of this sequel are built to last
| Scheme | X ABXBCCDDXAD AAEEFFGDG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100110 1110101011010 01010110011010101 111111111111 111101001111 1011111111111 1100100010001011 111011011010 10110100110010 1011111111 10110100110 0111010010 110111111010111010 101001111110011010110 1101101110101 110001001100100101 1101111111 101011111001 11001111011001 010010111010010 111111110011101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 1,140 |
| Words | 209 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 11, 9 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 288 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
About this poem
I've written twenty or thirty poems since retiring from some interesting jobs - many of which required professional writing. More legal than poetic. A common theme of most of my poems is the pondering of our impact (not necessarily familial) on those with whom we cross paths in one way or another..
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