Analysis of Valentines Day 2019
Tom Case 1967 (California)
I remember Valentines Day
16 years ago.
I was staying at
the Salvation Army in
Des Moines. I was
going through a divorce
and trying not to drink.
I was competing in poetry slams
at Java Joe's downtown.
That little stage kept me sane.
Some of the guys at the Sally
asked me to write love poems
for their girlfriends- to get them laid.
I told them in order for the poetry
to not sound contrived, I might
need to spend a night or two
with their women.
They didn't think that was funny.
I wasn't kidding.
I ended up writing a decent
poem about the irony of the whole situation.
Well, it's February 2019,
and I'm in prison for drinking.
No romantic Valentine's Day this
year; but still plenty of irony.
Even in the joint, guys ask me
to write love poems for their women.
The other day, I did write
a poem for a guy's wife who is
dying of cancer.
I hope some day soon,
she gets to read it
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 101 11101 0010100 1111 101001 010111 1101001001 110111 1101111 11011010 1111110 1111111 11101010100 1110111 1110111 1110 11011110 11010 110110010 10010100101010 11100 01010110 10101011 111101100 10001111 111101110 0101111 010101111 10110 11111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 883 |
Words | 189 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 21, 11 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 341 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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