Analysis of The missing part of Me
Your words do not come out right,
your expressions speak a thousand.
You was suffering.
I was being selfish.
Preferring you around,
although I knew you felt helpless.
I apologise for not reaching
for the part of me that's selfless.
My vase is without flowers since you left.
It seems I had no power over your death.
I wasn't ready to have you around less,
you are the missing part of me.
Strokes took over,
followed by dementia.
The loss of your left side
then unable to remember.
I think of you daily not only during September.
I would set myself alight to put you back together.
Scheme | XXAX XBAB XXXX CXXC CC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 10101010 11100 111010 010101 1111110 111110 10111110 1110110111 11111101011 11010111011 11010111 1110 1010100 011111 10101010 11111011010010 1111011111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
In Memory of G.R Whitehouse (Grandad)
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