Analysis of A Headstone Forever Blank
He died that night
In a cheap motel
In Maryville Tennessee
$35.00 Karma mixed with
The smell of curry
Coming from the front office
No one would ever understand
Why he chose to die here
Especially those few
Who claimed to know him well
The gravel parking lot
The towels
You could see through
And the lawn chairs inside
For furniture
Made the connection, and the
Endless search
Real
In a way it hadn’t been before
As he sat outside his room
Thinking about the end
The local construction workers
Remembered his name
As they called out to him
At the end of their day
Marking their time
By a weekly rate
In their rooms down the hall
They remembered the little things
His own family
Had forgotten
Or not so little
AND THEN HE DIED
In his $35.00 motel room
His fortune, just buried memory
With its headstone forever blank
(Newport Tennessee: April, 2013)
Scheme | XABXBXXXCAXXCDXXXXXEXXXXXXXXXBXF D EBX F |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 00101 01001 1011 01110 1010110 1111001 111111 01011 111111 010101 010 1111 001101 1100 1001000 101 1 00111101 1111111 100101 01001010 01011 111111 101111 1011 10101 011101 10100101 11100 1010 11110 0111 01011 110110100 1110101 100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 817 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 32, 1, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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