Analysis of Pass Gently
Lord, please take her quietly, but please don't take her soon
Please don't take her far from me, let me see her in the moon
Please make her time remaining as gentle as the breeze
Please provide soft ground to fall when I crumble to my knees
Please give others patience, for I know that I'll have none
Please confine all this anger and give it a different home
Please give me the right words to speak when questions begin to flow
Please give them understanding because these are answers I'll never know
Please shield me from the bitter hearts that aim themselves my way
Please allow us one more moment, allow us many days
| Scheme | AA BB XX CC XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 1110100111101 11101111110001 1101010110101 10111111110111 1110101111111 101111001101001 111011111100111 1110100111101101 11110101110111 10111110011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 611 |
| Words | 115 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 50 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem while my beautiful daughter was in her last two weeks with us. I was praying that, even though it was imminent, that she would have no pain. She suffered from multiple disabilities her entire life, and at the tender age of 24, her body could take no more. After four months on hospice, she passed gently, gracefully, and without pain.
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Written on July 20, 2018
Submitted by Deadmond on August 15, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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