Analysis of Memories Painted Red
Memories painted red
Play inside my head
My soul aches for release
A painstaking grief
Time never stops,
An incessant ticking clock
With granting of time
Without reason or rhyme
My desire is to say
Goodbye to yesterday
Memories painted red
Another to be fed
| Scheme | Aaxx xxbb ccAa |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 100101 10111 111101 0101 1101 1010101 11011 011011 1010111 1110 100101 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 266 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Written on March 09, 2024
Submitted by heatherg.95197 on March 18, 2024
Modified by heatherg.95197 on March 18, 2024
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