Analysis of One More Message
In a virtual reality
I found my father online
Though he died before the internet
a man of his time
So how is this possible
that an email appears?
From a website immortal
in cyberspace near
I knew it was him
with each line that I read
I knew it was him
from what he left unsaid
In trying to print
my screen crashed in error
“No document found,
the message interred”
Was I just imagining
or losing my mind?
His words never clearer
for me to then find
I’ve thought of him often
as I’ve struggled and fought
And carried inside me
those lessons he taught
With every search engine
I’ve looked and I’ve prayed
For just one more message
—to rebalance my days
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2018)
Scheme | ax xx bx bx Cd Cd xe xx xf ef gh ah gx xx e |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010010 111101 11101010 01111 1111100 110101 101010 0101 11111 111111 11111 111101 01011 111010 11001 0101 1110100 11011 111010 11111 111110 111001 010011 11011 1100110 11011 111110 1111 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 707 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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