Analysis of MY MOTHER, ALWAYS A LADY
MY MOTHER, ALWAYS A LADY
I think that I can remember,
The way you made me see the light of day;
The pains you bore,
So cruelly carved upon your, not ugly face;
The spasms playing on your trembling body
When you, in all that world of bitterness,
Struggled to bring me, willingly, to life
While I, like a wicked wretch, took a while
To look and say, goodbye,
To that liquid mess where, in many a month,
I dared my head to rest.
I can surely remember, the tears you shed;
That proud and wonderful look in your eyes
When, at last, you held me tight against your milk-filled breasts;
And I can still feel your tenderness,
That soft and warm touch of your tear-moistened lips,
As you tossed me a long desired kiss.
Many things I have forgotten, but I'll never forget
That divine smile of satisfaction,
Of a long extended toil well accomplished,
So majestically drawn upon your essence and me.
And you were, and I was to be.
Now, I am, but you are not,
And I can't make you be, no matter how hard I try.
I am sad and lonesome, now
Without a trace of you, for you are not, gone forever
Because life has only turned its eyes on me.
Oh, how I wish I were the one who had to say, goodbye!
Scheme | ABXXXACXXDXX XXXCXXXXXA AXDXBAD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 11111010 0111110111 0111 11010111101 010101110010 1101111100 1011110011 1110101101 11011 11101101001 111111 11100100111 1101001011 1111111011111 011111100 11011111101 1111010101 10111010111001 10111010 10101011010 10100010111001 01001111 1111111 0111111101111 1110101 01011111111010 01111011111 1111100111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,186 |
Words | 252 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 10, 7 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 300 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem because when my mother was dying, I was in another country and I had no money to travel back home. She implored me to return home for she wanted to see me before she died but believe me, I couldn't.
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