Analysis of The Man I Never Met

Dawn Morgan 1991 (Wilson)



The Man I Never Met

Do you remember I was asked, and I couldn’t recall
Did you know I was asked, and I didn’t at all
Memories slip and dreams fade when you cant remember.
The man I never met
What was the first car or best trip he’d ever taken
What was a hobby or best memory he love making
These are the questions I would think to ask
But never would because it’s in the past.
The man I never met.
 Someone you look up to, a figure in guidance
Became a stranger for years, just silence.
The man I never met, that man, was you
I got to learn all the secrets; they were true.
But in the end, I would always love you.

-With Love Your Daughter,
Dawn


Scheme A bbcAxxxxAddeee cx
Poetic Form
Metre 011101 110101110111 11111101111 1001011111010 011101 1101111111010 11010111001110 1101011111 1101011001 011101 11111010010 0101011110 0111011111 11111010101 100111111 11110 1
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 660
Words 146
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 14, 2
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 164
Words per stanza (avg) 44

About this poem

This poem is based on my feelings of having an absent father, who recently passed away. I was his only child and I had to learn a lot of things about him.

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Written on December 06, 2023

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Dawn Morgan

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