Analysis of Trying to Talk About My Cancer
Trying To Write About MY Cancer
“Come back, in a few days”
William Epson
Leaves that ordinarily fall
in bunches of bright autumn hues
are falling to my surprise,
one grey leaf at a time for me.
A single leaf breaks off
at its stem to pause the season
allowing my elbow to bend and rake
my imagination for the color
each leaf was before it died
| Scheme | A XB XXXXXBXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101110 110011 1010 1101001 01011101 1101101 11110111 010111 11111010 010111101 100101010 1110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 456 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 9 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
I was diagnosed with colon cancer in late 2020 and have undergone colorectal surgery. I was cancer-free for 12 months but it showed up in my liver. Surgery again in Feb. 2023. I have a "Cancer Journal" but haven't been able or willing to write many poems about the disease I am "surviving". The submitted is an attempt to do so.
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Written on March 16, 2023
Submitted by connectallan on March 24, 2023
Modified on April 20, 2023
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