Analysis of With a dying heart
Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)
You left me
alone
And in my final hours
of desperation
I call out to you
in a silent prayer
Calling to the Creator
To give one last sign
As i give up on me
Send a prayer to you
Of my love
Which is not a fluke
As my last cries
fading to cosmic echoes
Leaves the flesh
of my tormented heart
After all my failure
was only human
My soul speaking naturally
to you
Even as my spirit is being wrenched
From my broken flesh
Sending a message in a bottle
No this was not a test
What i told you was all true
I needed you Too
much not have you
I failed As you did not hear my call
And so as i fell to my death
down the spirit well
Phase-shifted
to Essence-heaven
Or fallen into the echoes
of spirit=Hell
Waiting for
the recognition signal
In answer
from you
but somehow
cannot get through
Holding on
with my last heartbeat
hear
this Cry of love
as i enter the vortex
of an alternate-reality
enter a time bender
meet my ancestors
sign the logbook
into the ethereal realm
Crossing the bridge
into never more
Wishing all the happiness to you
I could not bring
Scheme | AX BC DX EX A DF X XG HX EC AD XH IX DD DX XJ XC GJ KI ED XD XX XF XA EB XX XK DX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 01 0011010 1010 11111 00101 1010010 11111 111111 10111 111 11101 1111 1011010 101 11101 101110 11010 11101000 11 1011101101 11101 100100010 111101 1111111 11011 1111 111111111 01111111 10101 110 11010 11001010 1101 101 001010 010 11 11 1011 101 1111 1 1111 1110010 1110010 100110 1110 101 01001001 1001 01101 101010011 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,128 |
Words | 273 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 28 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 54 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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