Analysis of After Memoriam
Luukas Pekkala 1989 (South Carolina)
I found my mother's poems last night
Hidden under eleven years worth of electronic dust
A heartfelt message to my brother, untouched by time and feeling
Somewhere in that heavy blackness she smiles
And I light my cigarette.
| Scheme | X X X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101011 10100101110101 011011100111010 101101011 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 227 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
About this poem
From a unfilial son, finding traces of his mother.
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Written on May 14, 2022
Submitted by Pekkala on May 14, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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