Analysis of Life’s Graduation for Gram.
Douglas Blair 1951 (London)
Mother has gone
Ninety six years.
Bit of COVID scare
And most everything else
Tuckered out.
She had been effervescent.
Helping Dad in
The retail business.
Raising two boys.
Leading women often in
Special events.
Golf and curling club.
Hit a hole in one.
Lots of laughs.
Just call Bev.
She’ll have some good ideas.
Pleasant singing voice
And given to poems.
But latterly she would tire
After I finished two sentences
In some family news.
Who was this distant
And detached woman?
Fiddling with her cuffs.
Carrying on twelve years
After Jack’s demise.
Her Everloving.
Big man, big voice, big heart..
A friend remarked at the funeral.
Bev and Jack will be
Shooting nine holes and laughing.
Up there.
We liked that.
Amen.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIGJKLMNOPQROSFLTBUVWYZVC1 2 |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 1011 1111 01101 11 111010 1010 0110 1011 1010100 1001 10101 10101 111 111 1111010 10101 010110 111110 101101100 011001 11110 00110 10101 100111 10101 01 111111 010110100 10111 1011010 11 111 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 721 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 34 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 565 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
About this poem
My Mother passed in peace on September 2nd of 2022. Scott and I are making adjustments with lumps in our throats. Thankful, so very thankful.
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Written on February 01, 2023
Submitted by dougb.72572 on February 01, 2023
Modified by dougb.72572 on February 01, 2023
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