Analysis of Cherished Thoughts of Jessica



You must remember this:
The bliss,
The little child you loved to kiss,
The baby born to soothe
your heart.
From whom you thought you’d
never part.
While pain is fresh, your eyes
will weep.
Yet this, the memory you
must keep.
That this small child that you
well knew,
managed to grow and live
with you,
to forge friendships with old
and new,
to have a smile for all
she met,
a loving friend to every
pet.
God blessed her with a
special gift.
She came to earth our hearts
to lift.
While some may question
Jessie’s plight,
God made this child to be
just right.
He fashioned her to live
a life,
full of wonder, without
strife.
And so she grew to serve
the Lord.
We praise her life with one
accord.
Lifted up, she dwells
on high.
Though far away, she’s still
quite nigh.
Lord, grant her peace, eternal
rest.
We thank you, Lord, our lives
you’ve blessed.
And while we mourn, still you
we praise,
with love sublime, to give us
Grace.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 944
Words 211
Sentences 17
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 49
Lines Amount 49
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 710
Words per stanza (avg) 176

About this poem

This poem honors the memory of a young woman, Jessica, daughter of an evangelical Hungarian pastor, and his wife,who, in November 2021, at a very tender age, and challenged all her life as an autistic young woman, perished from the pandemic illness of COVID-19.

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Written on November 12, 2021

Submitted by karlcfolkes on November 12, 2021

Modified on April 13, 2023

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s ‘Liebe Mili’ (translated into English as “Dear Mili”), Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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