Analysis of My teacher died long ago
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
Stop.Stop.Stop.T Stop.Stop.Stop.Stop.Stop.Stop.Stop.E
Stop.A Stop.C Stop. H Stop. E Stop. R
There was a teacher.
He taught us prayer.
His teachings made us stronger.
Made our love last longer.
Hold hands in prayer.
He's always there.
He was a kind of squirrel that shared his little hands and approached the humans
to teach the people how to love and look after the land.
Clever brave and cute so trusting he was to you yet so blue when his winter came and now he needs you to just be you.
So he thanks you for visiting his grave and knows what it meant to plant a tree where he lay down his message of life for you to visit one day.
| Scheme | XX ABAABB XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 101111111 11010 1111 1101110 1101110 1101 111 1101110111101001010 11010111011001 10101110111111111101011111111 11111100110111111011111110111111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 638 |
| Words | 141 |
| Sentences | 25 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 6, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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