Analysis of I Want To Be The Oldest
If I can live to be the oldest man
Personally it means that I've won
Until someone else lives longer than I can
I won't die while I'm the oldest one
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111110101 100011111 0111110111 111110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 148 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
About this poem
Time runs out as we get Old.
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Written on October 13, 2023
Submitted on October 13, 2023
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