Analysis of For Travis
For Travis
(13-year-old client with cerebral palsy, wheelchair-bound, nonverbal. Passed away 2013)
Birds with broken wings
Flop, and struggle on the cold ground
So far below the unreachable sky
Wanting and straining, but unable to fly
They struggle each moment forward
Until, finding a small, safe place
With brave, exhausted hearts
They lift their heads and sing
Thus teaching us the depth of darkness From which light can spring
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His smile was his song; he was my friend.
| Scheme | XX XXAA XXX B B X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110 111011001011010101 11101 10101011 1101001001 10010101011 11011010 01100111 110101 111101 11010111011111 1 111111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 549 |
| Words | 95 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 3, 1, 1, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
About this poem
memorial- real person from my clinical practice in Spch Pathology
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Written on October 24, 2013
Submitted by steve-edwards on December 20, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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