Analysis of To My Neighbors



To my Neighbors

Left and right
To the seniors of my bordering
Good morning
How are you doing?

With all the pain and ache
You dwindle as age progressing
Not easy moving without
Help of walker

You are not any more
Moving around with strength
That is to be an old age
With the stiffness of muscles and weakness

Eyes are sadder and wiser
"We are real," you say, and we are
Standing here in our zone
Life is flowing as a fountain
That is God divine if we may say it

The wrinkles, sags, the graying hair are earned
The priceless years of the past; remaining is a treasure
At the cost of many fall and rise
Still love to smell roses at Rose of Sharon

What can be done to avoid it?
As it is a rule of nature only gratitude
 for golden years
And hold on loving self and your neighbor


Scheme X XAAA XAXB XXXX BXXCD XBXC DXXB
Poetic Form
Metre 1110 101 101011100 110 11110 110101 11011010 1101001 1110 111101 100111 1111111 1010110010 1110010 11111011 1010101 11101010 1110111111 0101010111 01011010101010 101110101 11111011110 11111011 111011101010 1101 0111010110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 775
Words 158
Sentences 3
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 22

About this poem

This poem was written based on my experience as senior living in the neighborhood of seniors home.

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Written on 2014

Submitted by yeshigemaneh on August 16, 2021

Modified on March 06, 2023

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Yeshi Gemaneh

I am a retired with many years of life, work and writing experiences. My experience interesting and full of rise and fall of life journey. more…

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