Analysis of The Loss of a Son
Nathan Lewis 2004 (Newark California)
The man cried at the all-black parade
Mourning the life that they had made
At the son of his deep in the ground
For the laughter he loved shall never again sound.
So he returned home, his nest so bare
With no more love for him to share.
He sat in his room, dark as the night
And in his life, he found no light.
The rope swung high and his body so low
The pain that he felt, no one will know
With the sounds of the birds, the whole world arose
In the light, the harsh truth glows.
But the man, alas, did not rise that day
"He lived a good life", No one will say.
But deep in the ground those three lie,
Man, wife, and son shall never again cry.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101101 10011111 101111001 101011110011 110111111 11111111 110111101 00111111 0111011011 011111111 10110101101 0010111 1010111111 110111111 11001111 1101110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 646 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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This is a fictional story I made, it was the first poem I created.
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