Analysis of IMMORTAL IBEX



“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).”
E.E. Cummings must have foreseen my rite.
A river of current, silently bellowing;
reduced to spontaneous salty streams.
For every time I recall your face,
my blissful ignorance is vetoed by fate.

Herculean victory was your modus operandi.
No adversity that faced thee, could claim from you a trophy.
Immortal and imperishable, you were to me.
A timeless cyborg of spirit, bones and WILL.

For you, a High Priest chariot, a vessel was fashioned.
An ascended master, you are gallantly regarded.

Day thirty, decade twenty-twenty will never be erased.
For it is the day you left your beating heart on this plane.
In my heart and in the heart of three you will remain.
But in my soul and in my blood your trace will ever prevail.

Hurry back and breathe with me once more.
My immortal ibex, Saint Yaakov.


Scheme XXXXXX AAAX XX XBBX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 11011111101011 11011111 010110100100 0110100101 110011111 11010011011 01001001110010 101001111111010 010011011 01010110101 11011100010110 10101011100010 110011010110101 11101111101111 0110001111101 101100111111001 101011111 10101011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 861
Words 175
Sentences 18
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 6, 4, 2, 4, 2
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 133
Words per stanza (avg) 30

About this poem

For my father, the Capricorn, who returned to the cosmos in January 2020.

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Written on February 17, 2020

Submitted by AAborishade on May 25, 2023

Modified by AAborishade on September 03, 2023

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Ahavel Aborishade

A lifelong poet and lyricist.  Three times published poet.  I love the beautiful art of words. The various masterpieces that clever penmanship, crafty cranial canvases, and melodious mediums make, at times, into unsuspecting monumental mementos spanning millennia. more…

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