Analysis of Losing A Child
Shirley Dorfner 1954 (Florida)
Unexplainable feelings of disbelief;
that your bundle of joy is gone.
Unexplainable feelings hate for;
not being able to protect your child.
Unexplainable feelings of anger for ;
letting this happen to your child.
Unexplainable feelings of resentment;
because everyone else is alive but ;
not your child.
Unexplainable feelings of fear;
you could lose another child.
Unexplainable feelings of depression;
not wanting to go on.
Unexplainable feelings of guilt because;
you can't find out what really happened,
Unexplainable feelings of one big hole;
in your heart.
Unexplainable feelings of ;
complete emptiness.
Scheme | ABCDCDEFDGDHIJKLMNO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010010101 11101111 01001011 1101010111 0100101101 10110111 0100101010 011011011 111 01001011 1110101 0100101010 110111 0100101101 111111010 0100101111 011 0100101 01100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 499 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
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