Analysis of For Now, But Not For Long My Sons
Trevor Stewart 1981 (Bronx, NY)
I feel it slipping away.
The love I have given so close and
So far.
No longer is there love for me.
My pieces of me, born through
An eternal struggle.
How do I fight when the war seems
All but lost?
To try so hard but hell inflicts me
Since heaven rejects me.
My seeds have cast away from me
They seem to have forgotten me.
But did they even remember me?
I bow away from now, but not forever..
I will return for you two…
My two who are a part of me…
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHDDDDDIED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111001 011110110 11 11011111 1101111 101010 11111011 111 111111011 110011 11110111 11110101 111100101 11011111010 1101111 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 457 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 341 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem 12 years ago during a very difficult time in fatherhood. I basically wrote how I was feeling and sometimes still feel.
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Written on November 30, 2010
Submitted by tstewart831 on December 01, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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