There goes the day
Daniel Roggeveen 1966 (Auckland)
A sneeze, a cough
And yay! We’re off
To painsville
With another busted rib
A yell, a mutter
A painful stifled stutter
The Painsville sign is lit up
Like a squib
One dares not cough
and set it off
Lest shifting bone should slip
A cuppa tea
Will be the key
To buttoning my lip.
About this poem
This poem describes the frustration and pain that accompanies cancer, specifically Multiple Myeloma, which I’ve had for two years now. Because of it’s growth within my bones, they become very weak and break regularly.
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Written on August 21, 2023
Submitted by Busketti on October 30, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABXC DDXC ABE FFE |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 285 |
Words | 62 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
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