Analysis of Cancer
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
It's like watching a slow-motion train wreck,
The horror of cancer taking over their body,
You see them slowly melting away,
Becoming just a mere shell of their former self.
It's hard to fathom that this is the same person,
Whose strong embrace you once sought for comfort,
Whose once robust laugh now replaced by the sound of labored breathing,
Whose once lively eyes now clouded with pain.
The memories of your parent grow older with time,
Their voice becoming more and more of a shadow,
As you fight to remember every good moment,
Every smile and every laugh.
It's a constant battle,
To hold on to every morsel of their essence,
To keep their spirit alive in your heart,
While watching them fade away.
It's a lesson in loss,
A realization that life is fleeting,
That every moment together is a precious gift,
And that the pain of losing them will never truly fade.
And you can't be comforted like others.
Because you don't care who walked on water,
Or hearing who gave sight to the blind
When you wish you could be blinded to this horror.
Scheme | XXAX XXBX XXXX XXXA XBXX XCXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110011011 0101101010110 111101001 010101111101 111101110110 1101111110 110111110111010 1110111011 0100111011011 11010101101 1111010100110 100101001 101010 1111100101110 1111001011 1101101 101001 0101011110 11001001010101 01011101110101 0111100110 0111111110 110111101 111111101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,056 |
Words | 216 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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For Jimmy Strickland (1957-2005)
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