Analysis of I Miss Him Already”
Chris Pollasch 1976 (Waupun)
In the early dark
He is mostly silent, at first
Amazing considering his height and the size of his hands
Big as an NFL wide receiver’s, I wonder
He talks, a little agitated this morning
Thinking about the test and projects due
And a trip he’s considering taking with friends
Holding my coffee
I say something to try to ease his stress
He smiles, a bit frustrated
He has his own ideas now—and rightfully so
But he forgives me, I think,
Long dad-habits being hard to break
I turned the stairwell light off after he left
Out the front door
And then turned it back on
Unwilling to leave it dark
In case he returned to grab something he forgot
That’s the way I see life with him now
He has a full year of high school left
But I miss him already
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPAQRNH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00101 11101011 010010011001111 11111010110 11010100110 1001010101 001101001011 10110 1110111111 110110 1111010101001 1101111 111010111 1101111011 1011 011111 0101111 011011110101 101111111 110111111 1111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 750 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 586 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 143 |
About this poem
I wrote this one morning after my son, in his second to last year of high school, left for the day. It is the bittersweet relish of years of time together and their eventual transition into a daily life without him.
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