Analysis of Great Grandfather John
I love you but I don’t know you,
I miss you, though you’ve never been here
I long for what the years have stolen…
a vacant memory so dear
I feel you across the hallowed spectrum,
of death and then beyond
Where our spirits write the words together…
different verses—the same song
(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 111111011 111101110 01010011 1110101010 110101 11010101010 10010011 1100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 326 |
Words | 57 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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