Analysis of Distance
Gabrielle Etta Jackson 1977 (Stamford)
Those memories of you
Like the sunshine
Mudpies in the sand and making saltine delicacies
I remember the junkyard and fears and us making up games to “save us”
Mama, You, Me
One two three shadows, and the fourth a quieted alert to keep the unknowns in view
Now these are all that are left of us
What we were
Not Three, Not Two, Just one left to count
No one replaces the space it just helps us grow closer to the other side
The distance between the living grows with every loss
I see that now
We will meet again.
| Scheme | A X X B X A B X X X X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110011 101 100101011000 10100101011011111 1011 11110010100011100101 111111111 110 111111111 1101001111111010101 01001010111001 1111 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 549 |
| Words | 125 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
About this poem
Memories of being a child in SE DC and its challenges
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Written on May 25, 2022
Submitted by thejadelotus on May 25, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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