Analysis of In Line
In line I find minutes are hours
Years are eternity.
In line I find friends laughing, sun shining, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, parents and grandparents around me eating chocolate birthday cake and homemade ice cream.
In line I find summer turns to fall and I walk to school with my metal Star Wars lunch pail.
In line I find time is not so slow as I walk across the stage with cheers for high school graduation.
In line I find the ups and downs and whirlwind of dreams, career, marriage, homes, vacations, friends, family spinning as time slips into the future. 40 just a number.
In line I find success and failure, pain and peace. I have more scars but more depth. More meaning and more love.
In line I find that many in front of me are gone. I wish I could have just one more dinner or phone call. The sounds of the children behind me keep me marching on.
In line I find that I can see the passing of time before it happens. I can speed it up or slow it down before it comes. It comes and passes so rapidly.
In line I wait for what must come, my time. My turn at the end of the line.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011110110 110100 011111011010101101001001110101101111 0111101110111111101111 011111111111010111111010 01110101011101101010110010111010101010 0111010101011111111110011 0111110011111111111111011101101001111101 0111111101011011101111111110111110101100 011111111111101101 |
Characters | 1,085 |
Words | 213 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 85 |
Words per line (avg) | 21 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 848 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 213 |
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Written on July 10, 2018
Submitted by brantdarby on October 19, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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