Ode to the Guy Who Died Here
Tracy Lescom Joyal 1969 (New Liskeard Ontario)
Another man has bought it
Or was he but a child
Caught within a played out game / A victim of the wild.
A fish / he tried to swim
Amid a school of shark
But now he lies upon a slab
For a blade has found its mark
The justice that was dealt him
Within that prison hell
Was sealed upon a courthouse
When a judge's gavel fell
About this poem
Written in 1987, after a vicious stabbing in Millhaven Pen
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Submitted on November 28, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | ABBCDEDCFGF |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 324 |
| Words | 72 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
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