Analysis of A talker from the get-go



“Has that poor woman delivered
Her baby yet. Three
days now.”
April 6, 1951.
London St. Joseph Hospital.
Came out bawling right away.
At the indignities.
This one’s a talker.

April of 1956
Kindergarten class.
Doing face in the corner time
Repeatedly.
This one’s a talker.

April of 1951
Saturday in bed. Late.
Finishing latest Tarzan novel.
At breakfast table
Mom and Dad endured
The re-cap.
This one’s a talker.

April of 1965
Telling young brother Scott
Those amazing
Imagined tales
Just for fun and
Times together.
This one’s a talker

April of 1976
Call to the Bar ceremony
Barrister, Solicitor
Yeah, this one’s a talker.

April of 1987
Business had crashed.
No talk could get around
My Banker.
Weeks and months
Talking with sweet daughter Lauren
In our walkabouts.
She was effectively my therapy.
Kept me talking. Thankfully.

April of 2022
Visiting dear Mom
In Seniors’ home.
Mom almost 96 in age
Cognitive is failing.
Memory shot to hell.

So I fill in
For conversation
Rich happy memories.
(She passed in September.
She brought me life.
Remembered with joy.)


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Poetic Form
Metre 11110010 01011 11 10 1011010 111101 100100 11010 101 1001 10100101 0100 11010 101 100011 10010110 11010 10101 011 11010 101 101101 1010 0101 1110 1010 11010 101 1101100 1000100 111010 101 1011 111101 110 101 10111010 0101 1101001100 1110100 101 10011 0101 1101 100110 100111 1110 1010 110100 110010 1111 01011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,087
Words 218
Sentences 32
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 8, 5, 7, 7, 4, 9, 6, 6
Lines Amount 52
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Written on April 06, 2023

Submitted by dougb.19255 on April 06, 2023

Modified by dougb.19255 on April 06, 2023

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Wayne Blair

Born in London. Graduated law 1976 Practised eleven years, Married Hilary 1974 Two kids Lauren 1980 And Jordan 1987. Business failed 1987. Moved not knowing whither. Happy hills of Waterloo Region. Mennonite Country. Thirty four years in Industry. No complaints. Poet, photographer, nature hiker. Harmonica busker. http://puffnchord7.blogspot.com/ more…

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