Analysis of Forgive Me, I Beg
I said goodbye today….
saying for months
what I’d been trying to say
Alone in the throng
staring down at the hole
they had laid you upon
I remember
the laughter
and the joy that we shared
I remember
the promise
that we made on a dare
“Never
to end up like this,”
we had taken the same vow
Each
empowering the other
to end it before now
I could not
pull that plug
or flush down that drain
The guilt
hanging heavy,
the memory left stained
I hope
you now see me
from a much better place
And take pity
on my failing
my one great disgrace
The backhoe
is coming,
the mourners have gone
Please forgive me
I beg,
I’ll be with you before long
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
Scheme | axa bxx Ccx Cxx cxd xcd xxx xex xef egf xgx exb e |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 1011 1111011 01001 101101 111101 1010 010 001111 1010 010 111101 10 11111 1110011 1 0100010 111011 111 111 11111 01 1010 010011 11 1111 101101 0110 1110 11101 01 110 01011 1011 11 1111011 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 696 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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