Analysis of Stay Gracious
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Growing older is no mystery.
To anyone disbelieving,
A youth to live it...
Continues on without time limits.
Has an awakening that begins,
Recognizing time to spend and waste...
Ultimately ends a race,
With Mother Nature to avoid aging.
As a witness to feel and notice this,
It happens.
And seldom is the doing of it,
An event to announce,
The coming of must see attractions.
This to do,
Is a personal activity many seek to refuse.
Although,
Those who accept the inevitable,
Attempt to stay gracious and feel blessed.
To forgive yet not forget,
Every challenge to have faced...
An aging nothing can erase.
But aging with a perspective to give up.
And submit to it.
Moisturizing away its appearance,
Is as futile as a compliment solicited...
Requesting someone to guess,
The age of one who questions.
'Hmmm...let's see.
29?'
'I can't believe how close you are.'
'Me either.
Enjoy your day.'
Those aging and accept to know it,
Live!
Live to feel the best you can.
And give,
Your mind a rest.
From a past to have had digested.
Who better is more deserving than you?
And who is more deserving,
After all that you have been through.
Stay gracious.
Live.
And feel the best you can.
Who better is more deserving?
After all that you have been through.
Attempting to stay as youthful as possible.
Yet to know Mother Nature,
Will always be capable...
To identify any disguise,
Regardless of the price paid for it.
'You won't believe someone,
Guessed my age today as 29!'
'You're right.
How much did you pay,
To settle for that age.'
'I Resent that.
I didn't have to bribe anyone.
Someone asked if I had a few dollars.
And I happened to have had it!'
'I can imagine.
So...
How much did your civic duty,
Cost you this time?'
'I don't know why you think,
I am into myself like that.'
'Mysterious, isn't it?
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Metre | 101011100 1100010 01111 010101110 110100101 10011101 1000101 1101010110 1010110101 110 010101011 101101 010111010 111 101000100101101 1 1101001000 011110011 1011101 10010111 11010101 11010010111 00111 1011010 1110101000100 010111 0111110 11 1 11011111 110 0111 110001111 1 1110111 01 1101 10111110 1101101011 0111010 10111111 110 1 010111 11011010 10111111 010111101100 1111010 111100 10101001 010101111 11011 111011 11 11111 110111 1011 11011110 111110110 01101111 11010 1 11111010 1111 111111 1101111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,727 |
Words | 332 |
Sentences | 47 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 12, 2, 1, 2, 9, 10, 2, 3, 4, 4, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 67 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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