Analysis of 6,615 Days
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
Somewhere between then and now
I went from
"Dad, stop telling me what to do."
to "Dad, tell me what to do."
Maybe you never left us.
You simply passed through another door
that I can't walk through.
Maybe you're in a different expanse.
Sometimes I hear you in my heart.
Sometimes I feel you in my bones.
I guess my eyes can't see you.
The enclosure is too broad.
You're a ceaseless illumination.
A yearning coldness discerning silent expression.
Momentary as quickly as it came.
The nudge of a wintry tranquility
left beyond of your leaving.
Not for a moment
can time fully erase these blemishes.
It only masks our tolerance.
Some days it wears a veil
of distress
created from dimming remembrance,
and imaginations of things that could've been.
And at other times,
at different schedules,
it draws from different structure
of substance more pleasing.
A far more poignant twinkle in my inspiration.
Something that reminds me,
advises me
that even if I,
even if we all lost you,
you never really, fully departed.
We never truly lost your spirit.
You're in every mirror I look in.
6,615 days.
Scheme | ABCCDECFGHCIJJKLMNOPQRPSTUVMJLLWCXYSZ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101 111 11101111 1111111 1011011 110110101 11111 1010010001 01111011 01111011 1111111 0010111 10100010 0101001010010 100110111 0110100100 1011110 11010 1110011100 110110100 111101 101 010110010 00010111001 01101 110010 11110010 110110 011101001010 101011 0101 11011 1011111 1101010010 110101110 1010010110 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,092 |
Words | 221 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 37 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 857 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 191 |
About this poem
At the time that this poem was written, it had been 6,615 days since my father passed away. These were my thoughts.
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Submitted by JoeStrickland on May 15, 2023
Modified by JoeStrickland on May 18, 2023
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