Analysis of What Would I Say
My Father died at 63
I’m now 75
I remember the day
I turned 63
Thinking I would finally know
What he knew
Be able to feel what he felt
See what he saw
And to be who he was
But I wasn’t a decorated
World War 2 Marine
The last of his platoon
To survive
The Solomon Islands the graveyard
Of most of his friends
He died on a Thursday
But we were estranged
‘Another woman who was not my Mom’
Looking back I wonder
What could I have changed
What words would I have used
To say to him …
(To Edward F. Behm U.S.M.C.: March, 2024)
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 11 101001 11 10111001 111 11011111 1111 011111 1110100 1101 011101 101 01001001 11111 11101 11001 0101011111 101110 11111 111111 1111 1101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 533 |
| Words | 114 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 22, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 23 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 200 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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