Analysis of Even if They Dig
Even if They Dig
they still won’t find anything.
I search for kind memories
before you are gone.
It’s hard to believe you are dying
even with a written guarantee.
Cracks appear
and time enters a different way,
the unconditional
shelf life of kin.
Next year I will glance back-
over the missing,
unpack regrets
like a sky exposed for what isn’t there.
A heart dragged towards windows
to let in the light.
Together I could be whole,
but I am shattered from trying to break even.
Do I care we never cared? Detachment keeps me
behind a troubled haze.
Are you in there gagging on pretense?
When the world
gets this close, it’s hard not to look.
Anger blurs the eyes—a little
but no more than these tears
I’ve been holding in for years.
| Scheme | X A XX AB XX CD XA XX XX XD BX X XX CX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 111110 1111100 01111 111011110 10101001 101 011001001 00100 1111 111111 10010 0101 101011111 0110110 11001 0101111 111101101110 111110101011 010101 11011101 101 11111111 10101010 111111 1110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 773 |
| Words | 169 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 15 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 26 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
About this poem
Unpublished poem written to unpack how I feel about my sisters terminal illness.
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Written on October 12, 2021
Submitted by fast_foot on January 09, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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