Analysis of Annie's Rose
I knew you before I knew you.
I met you before I shook your hand.
We were young but we traveled together
Somehow pain traveled with you
And at times it defined you
But you found a way to rebel
Against that too.
High School adventures beckoned you
And I was always with you.
Like chapstick for the soul
The Adventures covered the pain
for awhile.
We were like Madonna and the 80's song
We lived to Tell
Well, we were supposed to Live to Tell
but you changed all that and it still catches up with me.
I still struggle with all of this
Now I am less
Because you are less with me
Because you are less with me.
I write because I wanted to somehow
Settle with you, settle with me.
So I write for me as much as for you.
When I write I manage to progress somewhere
I can save old things till they tear
But I could not save you, and now I often tear
And you made sure
I could not open that door that closed you.
My friend Tom knows about you
But he only knows your name
He does know that pain can somehow teach
If we can manage to embrace.
If we can share it as a life lesson
Then the pain does lesson
Like wearing better shoes
To walk the hard street.
So Becky, that you for the unwanted gift
Of hard-edged, soul-shaking understanding
Maybe I cannot slay the monster
But I can tame it some.
The wound can close a bit
And we can move forward in a better place
In a still-challenged world
Some flowers can still bloom in the desert.
Annie and Annie's Rose can still be seen.
Scheme | axb aaxa aaxxx xccd xxDD xda eeexa axxf ggxx xxbx xfxxx |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
Metre | 11101111 111011111 1011110010 111011 0111011 11101110 0111 11010101 011111 11101 00101001 101 1010100011 1111 110011111 1111101110111 11101111 1111 0111111 0111111 110111011 10111011 1111111111 111110111 11111111 111111011101 0111 1111011111 1111011 1110111 11111111 11110101 1111110110 101110 110101 11011 11011100101 111110010 101101010 111111 011101 01111000101 001101 1101110010 100111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,523 |
Words | 319 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
My close friend Annie lost her High School friend Becky on New Years Eve 2018 to suicide and every year it troubles her, so I wrote this Prelude to a Poem for Annie, December 26, 2019. Tom Courtney for my friend Annie.... For Her Friend Becky....
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Written on December 26, 2019
Submitted by tom_3 on April 30, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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