Analysis of Middle Age
These middle indiscriminate years.
Thirty-something, forty, fifty, more!
Past breakfast, brunch, and lunch.
The afternoon tea time of our lives,
When energy and gravity vie to hit the floor!
And yet each aging flaw, and each aging fear
These days, reversibly here!
Thirty-something, join the gym!
Forty-something have a holiday.
Fifty-something, visit shrink you should have seen before!
Or have a fling!
Invest in facial fillers
Or . . .
Acknowledge you may frighten small children.
Look what you eat
And so be resigned
To head towards your mortal suppertime with a smile.
Befitting the indiscriminate indigestion
Of those middle years and fears.
Suddenly here, and too late to ignore!
Scheme | ABCDBEFGHBIJBKLMNKAB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 110001001 101010101 110101 001111101 1100010011101 01110101101 1111 1010101 10101010 1010101111101 1101 0101010 1 0101110110 1111 01101 11011101101 010000100010 1110101 1001011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 667 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 546 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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