Analysis of A Trip “Home”, June.



Back from three days’
Travel to the Home Town.
Familiar roads.
Lush new fields
Redwing blackbirds..
Dairy cattle.
Seemingly we’re on auto pilot.
And delighted.

Through Stratford
And the swans in the Park.
Pilgrims to the Avon
Festival Theatre.
And this year’s feast
Including Richard III
And King Lear (Paul Gros).

Rest of Highway Seven
Seemed quick.
Then Western Ontario
University architecture
Welcoming in the North End.
Old London North
Of my past
And Hilary’s.

Ryerson Public School
Chaotic with Friday
Noon hour Kids.
Retail Downtown area
Showing some signs
Of refurbishing, renewal.
Needed to.
London Central Collegiate
Site of our first dates
In Grade Eleven.
A world and marriage
Ahead.

All remaining friends
Dispersed and gray
With Grandkids.


Scheme AXXXXBXX XXXCXXX DXXCXXXA XXEXXBXXXDXX XXE
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 101011 0101 111 110 1010 100011010 0010 110 001001 101010 100100 0111 010101 01111 11110 11 1100100 0100100 1000011 1101 111 01 10101 010110 1101 111100 1011 10100010 101 1010010 111011 01010 01010 01 10101 0101 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 770
Words 146
Sentences 18
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 8, 7, 8, 12, 3
Lines Amount 38
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Written on June 12, 2023

Submitted by dougb.19255 on June 12, 2023

Modified by dougb.19255 on June 12, 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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