Analysis of Memory



Why not become my memory
And live in my dream?
Make sure I am not awakened,
And live not in extremes.

You are a great human,
That is not one of my sorrows.
Question is, why we did forget
What was to be our tomorrow?

I have to live with myself
While dying slowly each day;
You are playing with my life,
As if I were nothing or in your way.

Let me leave you with,
The memory of our few better days.
Let me tell you,
It could not have ended for us anyway.

All I am left with is
My loved one’s excuses for my living;
Remember, I have tried hard
In what was my best inning.

For all my loved ones
I am happy
To live with my sufferings
Knowing that none of them would
Be satisfied with what I was offering.

Dying slowly, painfully in your mind
Your impatience ending our meeting
In sadness blind.


Scheme AXXX XXXX XBXB XXXB XCXC XAXXC DCD
Poetic Form
Metre 11011100 01011 11111010 011001 110110 11111110 10111101 11111001 111111 1101011 1110111 1110101011 11111 01001101101 1111 1111101110 111111 1110101110 0101111 0111110 11111 1110 1111100 1011111 1101111100 1010100011 1010101010 0101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 765
Words 159
Sentences 10
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 3
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 87
Words per stanza (avg) 23

About this poem

Living with Memory lost Love. Let you enjoy the sadness.

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Written on September 12, 1998

Submitted by prithvi_d on July 11, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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