Still Kicking (Just not so High)

You and I have so many things to do still
We are old, but never too old to ramble
And I know if anyone can, then you will—
Maybe less gambol.

No, our bodies don’t work quite the way they used to
Yet we both still have our imaginations
No one else can duplicate moves that we do
Sweet iterations

If there comes a time when we cannot tango
There are many more methods of romancing
Maybe in our minds we will do the “wango”
Make-believe dancing

Growing old with you is my top diversion
Total immersion

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Scansion:
Sapphic Sonnet

A Sapphic Sonnet is comprised of 3 sapphic stanzas plus a couplet, where line 1 of the couplet is sapphic and line 2 is adonic and parallel, just as in the quatrains.
Based on the Sapphic Stanza, a Greek form.
“These verses speak of relationships, from one individual to another, and are marked by emotion.”

Written in quatrains—3 sapphic lines followed by an adonic line, which is usually written as a parallel to line 3.

Sapphic line = 11 syllables, trochaic with the central foot being a dactyl
Adonic line = 5 syllables, a dactyl followed by a trochee

Should look like this:
Su-Su-Suu-Su-Su
Su-Su-Suu-Su-Su
Su-Su-Suu-Su-Su
Suu-Su

where “S” = a stressed syllable, and “u” = an unstressed syllable