08/09/2023
The poem has a Scheme of ABABCC
It has a very sad tone
The text has many metaphors like:
"My flesh was its own shield:
Where it was gashed, it healed."
The poem has a structure of 4 lines followed by 2 separate lines and repeated until the end.
The couplets in the poem give the text a very strong tone, all the couplets help the last 2 lines in the poem a certain urgency because the author states that he is holding himself trying to hold off the pain but it's not enough and he will die anyways.
The writer was speaking upon his friend who was dying, trying to get in his shoes and trying to understand what he is going through.