Analysis of Roy

Latin X 1967 (Philadelphia)



I saw a dead man cry.
There were tears in his eyes.
He knew he was about to die.
His loved ones kissed him goodbye.

There was no more time for him to cry.
He laid there and died.

As his soul left his body he reminisced on what he will miss.

He looked down from heaven and saw his children cry. He wished he never died.  

He reached heaven’s gate where the Holy Father waits. Holy Father embraced him, healed him.


Scheme AXAA AB X B X
Poetic Form
Metre 110111 101011 11110111 111111 111111111 11101 111111010111111 111110011101111101 111011010101101001111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 419
Words 94
Sentences 12
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 2, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 63
Words per stanza (avg) 16

About this poem

I wrote this about a cousin that died of cancer. As we stood around his bed tears rolled down his face. I never forgot that.

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Written on January 01, 2022

Submitted by LatinX on April 26, 2024

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