Analysis of My days
Up to this very moment
I passed through each and every
day of my life,
your hands have been bearing
the lion’s share.
Words of all breeds
came to tea,
while they tore down old walls,
built new
braces for the roof
and yet,
still in blue the wisteria
flows out into our garden
from an old tree.
Reading together, eating, sleeping,
each by our own work,
in a sense our own sentences
we meet in dreams
deeper yet
than the stars
beyond the sun −
whose light seems younger
than our days.
Words there were,
are still born once more
as they touch hands
before going through the days
of our life.
Tomorrow will be
another anniversary.
Scheme | XABCX XAXX XD AEA CXX X DX EFG FXX GB AA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (43%) Etheree (37%) |
Metre | 1111010 11110100 1111 111110 0101 1111 111 111111 11 10101 01 10101 11011010 1111 100101010 111011 001101100 1101 101 101 0101 11110 1101 110 11111 1111 0110101 1101 0111 0100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
About this poem
This poem was written to celebrate another upcoming anniversary of my love for my wife and what she means to me (each month on the 27th we remember it was on January 27th, 1987 that we became a couple.
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