Analysis of A Young Old Man



Having reached the smallest number
With exactly twelve divisors,
I feel young.
The sum of a pair of two primes,
My age is adjacent to two other...and
It is divisible by the sum of its digits--
In base ten. In idiom...
It is "high speed," and I feel just that
In my going, or crossing over.
But this won't be (as in time) like
"Gone in...Seconds," or as minutes in
An hour, or in a degree.
Today, more than any other time...
I believe that,
Because I have always lived and loved--
Under God's Command, I feel young.
And when...not if, I become old...
Really, really old, I will gladly say--
To all and sundry that
I am still--a young old man.


Scheme ABCBDBEDAFGHIDDCDBDJ
Poetic Form Tetractys  (25%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 10101010 101011 111 01101111 111010111 1101001011110 0110100 111101111 011011010 11111011 1111100 11010001 011110101 1011 01111101 10101111 0111011 1010111101 110101 1110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 622
Words 127
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 468
Words per stanza (avg) 122
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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