Analysis of Well Grounded From Back in the Day
Well Grounded From Back in the Day ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
July 7, 2023
A Mahjong game gathering
At our Brooklyn home tonight
Brings Blackout Cake remnants
For a chubby boy’s delight!
Our daily sanctuary
The streets we’d all embrace
We never feared what dangers lurked
In that warm and loving space
Second generation parents
Just struggling to survive
Never sharing stress with children
For tranquility they would always strive
Each day a new adventure
Possibilities supreme
Our parents greatest joy in life
Was to see their children dream
Dream of better days ahead
Lives devoid of doubt
But grounded profoundly in self-esteem
“I know that I can do it!!” We’d always proudly shout
Those halcyon days, Brooklyn childhood days
I carry in my vintage soul
They help me to know that survive I can
Memories help to make you feel whole
Well seasoned in life I joyously remain
Perambulating my time away
Still wondering, rejoicing and creating
Happy to awake another day
Always recalling and blessing the roots of my life
When foundations were firmly laid
This well worn soul can proudly extol
A life still so proudly well played
Scheme | ABX CDEDXFXFEGXGXHIHBJHJXKXKXACAILKL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011001 101011 1 011100 11010101 11110 1010101 1010100 011101 11011101 0110101 1001010 1100101 10101110 101001111 1101010 010001 101010101 1111101 1110101 10111 1100100101 111111111101 110011011 11001101 1111110111 100111111 110011101 11101 11000100010 101010101 101001001111 10100101 111111001 01111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,147 |
Words | 209 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 32 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 458 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
About this poem
What we learned in childhood, if the quality was there, keeps us grounded in life.
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