Analysis of Boys Of Summer



a tribute to the boys of summer
baseball's high and mighty
to those who played the game with grace
like joltin Joe and Whitey

hard work and dedication
swung Casey's heavy bat
and most of all they loved the game
you can be quite sure of that

the crack of the bat...the roar of the crowd
the smell of fresh cut grass
fathers and sons making memories
the kind that will forever last

I still get chills when I see the old reels
of the Babe pointing up to the sky
and after all these years I still can't hide the tears
when I hear Gehrig's recount of that final goodbye

So long to the boys of summer
To Mickey and Roger and Joe
I like to think they're still playing somewhere
and giving one h*** of a show.


Scheme ABXB XCXC XXXX XDXD AEXE
Poetic Form Quatrain  (80%)
Etheree  (40%)
Metre 010101110 111010 11110111 11101 110010 110101 01111101 1111111 011011101 011111 100110100 01110101 1111111011 101101101 010111111101 111100111101 11101110 11001001 111111101 01011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 682
Words 140
Sentences 2
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 110
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 29, 2023

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Mark Orr

Photographer, Genealogist, Historian and aspiring poet living in the fabled county of "Raintree" in Indiana. more…

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