Analysis of All from a Fall
Doug Blair 1951 (London)
Icy deck
I went down
Broken left wrist
Rib, hip, ankle
Pride.
Mindless ride.
Much time is
Now flat.
Fancy that, not
Like me to be prone
Contemplation to own.
Answerless, when you
Have known me
Fixing each ill.
Strong macho will.
But now humbled
Resting in calm.
Hearing some Word
From on High.
God seems close
To my pain, drain
Complain?
Not me now.
What a Guy!
(I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Psalm 27)
| Scheme | XXXXAAXXXBBXXCCXXXDXEEXD X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (64%) |
| Metre | 101 111 1011 1110 1 101 111 11 1011 11111 01011 111 111 1011 1101 1110 1001 1011 111 111 1111 01 111 101 11100111011101010100110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 470 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 24, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
About this poem
Taken wounded or infirm sometimes, one lays flat and is forced to look up. My chastening, healing experience was through prostate cancer and surgery 2017, Christmas.
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Written on February 14, 2023
Submitted by dougb.21370 on February 14, 2023
Modified by dougb.21370 on February 14, 2023
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