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
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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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Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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