Analysis of Perchance, some of the old warm ways?

Douglas Blair 1951 (London)



Is it possible
You might have time
To hear me out
Considering mine?
I know your day
Is plenty wired.
Numbers ask
For you inquire.
Physician bright
With hands so trained
And hours surgery
Your body drained.
We once were friends.
I’ve moved to Town.
I guess your skills.
Your great renown.
But where’s that Guy
Who fished our stream?
Who shared rude jokes
And shared a dream.
To bike through Europe
Once finished school.
But Pre-Med came.
Our friendship cooled.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11100 1111 1111 01001 1111 11010 101 1101 0101 1111 010100 1101 1101 1111 1111 1101 1111 11101 1111 0101 11110 1101 1111 10101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 463
Words 93
Sentences 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 363
Words per stanza (avg) 81
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Written on January 29, 2023

Submitted by dougb.72572 on January 29, 2023

Modified by dougb.72572 on January 29, 2023

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Douglas Blair

Blogging poems since 2008. Once a lawyer in general practice. Then 32 years as Shipper in a heavy metal fabricating plant. Retired 2022. Married and father of two. Poet. Hiker. Harmonica Busker. Gospel enthusiast. Photographer. http://shootdempix.blogspot.com/ more…

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