Analysis of The Final Chapters



The Final Chapters ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
July 23, 2023

As your well lived journey in this world
Nears its inevitable final chapters
I wish for you pure enveloping kindness
Not a network of abusing raptors
I wish for you support and love
Folks to ease your every pain
A calm to infuse your precious soul
A mind remaining sane
I hope that resolution comes
For conflicts new and old
Ancient silly feuds dissolved
So petty if truth be told
I have no idea what might come next
No crystal balls have we
All I can do is wish for you
Sweet eternal reverie


Scheme AXX XAXAXBXBXCXCXDXD
Poetic Form
Metre 01010 101011 1 111110011 11010001010 11111010010 101101010 11110101 11111001 011011101 010101 1110101 101101 1010101 1101111 1110101111 110111 11111111 1010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 552
Words 108
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 16
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 220
Words per stanza (avg) 53

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Some thoughts about the end of life.

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Written on July 23, 2023

Submitted by shulman.gary on July 23, 2023

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Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed. has spent a lifetime supporting vulnerable families and children. He began his career working with children with and without disabilities in an inclusive Head Start program in Brooklyn NY. He then transitioned to become the Special Needs and Early Childhood Coordinator for the Brooklyn Children's Museum for 10 years. His passion for advocacy grew as he worked more and more with parents of children with disabilities. For over 24 years he passionately advocated for the needs of these parents as the Social Services and Training Director for Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc. in NYC. The last 8 years of his working life, Mr. Shulman served as a private Special Needs Consultant conducting hundreds of training sessions throughout NYC and beyond to help parents and professionals find and access the services and systems required to facilitate maximizing the potential of their children with disabilities. Now Mr. Shulman is happily retired in Palm Springs CA, but still volunteers his time any way he can to provide information to those in need of his expertise. Today, Gary enjoys sharing his poetry that he passionately writes with the goal of leaving this world a better place one word at a time. more…

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