Analysis of A Cancer Story
Steven Dupere 1963 (MA)
Grief still haunts from grievous wounds
In sorrow of memory it churns -
The day the fire fell from your lips
For the message you left still burns.
"Cancer, my love, has stricken us,"
As my world fell completely apart.
How could God's word fall somber,
For to break a broken man’s heart.
Faith heals wounds, so time will say,
But our story's never known such a time,
As what hell cast down on hope that day
Of life's most insidious crime.
First thereof was the thought of death,
An unbearable fear would consume me,
But I had to stay strong to keep you afloat,
For our love is what stood to exhume me.
I sat to watch you subsiding
As your vibrancy faded like days,
Left helplessly bearing its witness
As your eyes began to glaze.
You raged in battle with spirited hand,
A courage like nothing I’d seen,
But the storm proved too formidable
As your strength began to wean.
When all at once our dreams fell black
As you’d fallen defeated by death,
Succumbed so bravely to the toll of the bell
For that chance had stolen your breath.
Now I tend its strife as a bane of misfortune
That stars will fade in the night
With ne’er but a word from heaven above,
Left dark its lamentable light.
Its anguish falls heavy upon me
And that I wither beneath its weight
To seek in earnest for facets of you
Beyond your cancerous fate.
As now to drown in a sea of tears,
I pray for to soften its cries.
If only once more to love you,
A comfort time cruelly denies.
Scheme | XAXA BCXC DEDE FGXG XHBH XIXI XFXF XJXJ GKLK XMLM |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111101 010110011 010101111 10101111 10111101 111101001 1111110 11101011 1111111 11010101101 111111111 11101001 1110111 1010011011 11111111101 11011111011 11111010 111001011 110010110 1110111 1101011001 01011011 101111000 1110111 111110111 111001011 01110101101 11111011 111111011010 1111001 1110111001 11101001 110110011 011100111 1101011011 0111001 111100111 11111011 11011111 01011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,476 |
Words | 315 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Written on February 02, 2024
Submitted by Symmetry60 on February 02, 2024
Modified by Symmetry60 on May 14, 2024
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