CRAIG ALAN POTTER



Taken awful soon to remember
All his faults and skills
Often did we dawdlers make jokes
Especially fond of the aberrant
As deep as moments allowed we’d poke
While not worrying over love or rent
For our dallying crafted timber
Amidst forest thrills
Of joyful laughter!

About this poem

This is a very brief eulogistic poem seeking to encapsulate as concisely as possible the life of a brother who died tragically much too young...

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Written on February 18, 2022

Submitted by ScottMPotter on April 24, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFABA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 269
Words 46
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9

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