Analysis of 2021/03/18 ~ Dear Aunt Shannon



Dear Aunt Shannon,
You left us just this morn.
Just found out you're gone,
I don't know how, for you, to mourn.

Dear Aunt Shannon, I'm sure you're fine.
Did you know He was calling you home?
Did you ask to say your last goodbyes?
Were you in the hospital all alone?

Dear Aunt Shannon, I knew one side of you,
Didn't get to know the other.
Is what I knew true?
That question lingers forever.

Dear Aunt Shannon, the sky pours tears I long to weep.
The clouds cradle you in their arms.
Forever in peace, I pray you sleep
As now, you'll not come to any harm.

Dear Aunt Shannon, you may be in a better place,
But you left a damned hole down here.
I hope to ne'er forget your face,
Not even in a hundred years.

Dear Aunt Shannon, you were a friend from the first we met.
Several short months were all we had.
I guess we never know what time's left
Before we pass on and make those behind sad.

Dear Aunt Shannon, you're in the arms of the angels now,
I guess they needed you more than we.
Three weeks in a coma, it's  probably best anyhow
Now that you're surrounded by eternal beauty.

Dear Aunt Shannon, in the next life, I'm sure it'll be better.
Walk them streets of gold,
Admire them pearly gates forever
In a Land where you'll never grow old.

Dear Aunt Shannon, Death's grip is cruel and hard,
Taking whomever he pleases.
Maybe Heaven will be your childhood yard
Where you can run 'til you see Jesus.

Dear Aunt Shannon, tell Jesus hello for me, will you?
Watch over Uncle Paul until he meets you there.
I can't believe you're gone, yet it's true.
Will you watch over all of us down here?

Dear Aunt Shannon, maybe you'll be a star in the sky tonight
Twinkling down from Heaven on high.
Your light, I'm sure will shine so bright
As we, in sleep this night will lie.


Scheme XAXA XXXX BCBC DXDX EFEX XGXG HIHI CJCJ KXKX BXBF LMLM
Poetic Form Quatrain  (55%)
Metre 1110 111111 11111 11111111 11101111 111111011 11111111 010010101 1110111111 10111010 11111 11010010 111001111111 01101011 010011111 111111101 111011100101 11101111 11110111 11000101 1110100110111 10110111 111101111 01111011011 1110100110101 111101111 1100101100110 111010101010 111000111110110 11111 011101010 001111011 11101111001 10010110 101011111 111111110 1110110011111 110101011111 110111111 1111011111 111010110100101 100111011 11111111 11011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,717
Words 339
Sentences 29
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 44
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted by RoseofVenus on March 18, 2021

Modified by RoseofVenus on August 14, 2021

1:47 min read
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Cheyenne Seaman

Born in PA in 2003. Raised in NC. Love to read. Mother, first & foremost. Poet & Story Writer. Carpenter, Tutor, Babysitter, Sister, Daughter. more…

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