Analysis of Memories
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
I should but know my memories
but slowly I loose grasp.
Of always and forever and of my distant past.
My memories are fading but some return to catch me up and bless me with imagery ablast.
At last I am forgiving of my wanderings
into systems and into worlds of cruel drudgery.
And everything I know, and what matters the most - what I can afford to you in humble boast.
So if I should forget a poem in this mote
be sure I did remember to protect what I had wrote.
And never mind if words aren't felt here as they aught.
I will stand beside them for memories aren't merely bought.
But all may soon relate to forgetting memories so in that fact all man may surely take their leave.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111100 110111 110010011101 11001101101111101111001 111101011100 01100011110100 0101101100111101110101 111101010011 11110101011111 0101111011111 111011110010101 1111011010100101111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 683 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 535 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 133 |
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Written on March 12, 2022
Submitted by heathert.34240 on March 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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