Analysis of Dead Tired. Two A M.
He was sleeping
On a a customer bench
By a table
Before him empty coffee cup
Economy copy of black Bible.
The HOLY BIBLE.
What was the story here.
I dare not wake him.
Student cramming late nighter?
Lonely and just plain
Needing the happy, silly
Sounds of Friday night
And there they were
Joking, storytelling, flirting.
Flexing what they got.
He just slept.
That Bible got me thinking.
I had been re-reading a Steinbeck
Novella…The Red Pony.
Bunch of them were personal
I made some notes on the
Back inside jacket.
The link for this blog site.
Words of encouragement.
Citing Psalms 37, 84 and 91.
Quietly I placed the
On top of his Bible.
I left. No other direct contact.
He was dead to the world.
| Scheme | A X B X B B X X C X D E C A X X A X D X F X E X X F B X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 1001001 1010 01110101 0100101110 01010 110101 11111 1010110 10011 1001010 11101 0110 1010010 10111 111 1101110 11111001 010011 1110100 111110 10110 011111 110100 1010 100110 111110 11110011 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 925 |
| Words | 225 |
| Sentences | 27 |
| Stanzas | 29 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 29 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 19 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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Written on May 06, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on May 06, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on May 06, 2023
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