Analysis of This Old Dog
Edwin Tanguma 1966 (CA)
This Old Dog
I feel that I am too old
To start all over again
I guess I’ll be like the dog
And I think she’ll be the sow
Who knew one could learn so much
By reading about others
Who have lived so long ago
It seems as if they’re alive
And well in this day and age
For those who choose to believe
In such antiquated things
This should never fade away
They make life much easier
Because they’ve already learned
The lessons we are learning
By reading about their lives
We can learn to live our own
Without making their mistakes
We should not have to suffer
Through that which they have suffered
Edwin Tanguma 7/26/2002
| Scheme | A XXAXXXXXXXXXBXXXXXBX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 1111111 1111001 1111101 0111101 1111111 1100110 1111101 1111101 0101101 1111101 011001 1110101 1111100 0110101 0101110 1100111 11111101 0110101 1111110 1111110 10010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 627 |
| Words | 122 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 20, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
About this poem
This one is one from a collection I call the dark years…I don’t know why I feel compelled to share these poems from this dark time in my life…But what must be must be…And I thought and believed that I was too old to start over back then…Oh Well…
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