Analysis of Grief, unreasonable, unwelcome.
I hit like Vesuvius.Greater emotional impactThan one's first love.
Irrepressible as incoming tide.Washing over sand castles.
I elicit self-doubt,Self-pity,Self-centredness.I bring on red anger,
Social awkwardness,
Loner spirit.
I humiliate
With damp blubber.
Pluck the mournful strings,
Belly-high.
Drag up guilt for things
Not said; not done;
Not forgiven.
I pilfer memories.
And energy.
I cause friends
To keep distant,
To stammer,
To grow impatient.
I haunt with faces,
Gestures, music,
Abandoned wardrobe.
I roar
At the phrase
"Snap out of it."
Cause men to doubt
Their manhood.
Cause women to remember
Apron strings, rockers
And first school-days.
I befuddle and
Bring on mistakes,
Inefficiencies.
I slander God
And His kind.
(For a time.)
I tax prayer
Beyond itself.
But I also clean
The inner residues;
Flush out the vitriol;
Relieve the inexplicable;
Distill humble servant-spirit;
Develop new-found audacities,
Currencies, compassions.
Evoke the dark night,
That joy might
Come in the morning.
I am Grief.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101001111 00100110110110 1010111111110 10100 1010 1010 1110 10101 101 11111 1111 1010 110100 0100 111 1110 110 11010 11110 1010 0101 11 101 1111 1111 11 1101010 10110 0111 10100 1101 00100 1101 011 101 111 0101 11101 01010 110100 0100100 01101010 010111 1001 01011 111 10010 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,018 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 45 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Written on February 12, 2002
Submitted by dougb.21370 on February 12, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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