Analysis of How the dandelions remember you

Sbonga Nhlabathi 2005 (Bedford Gardens)



The dandelions forgot to love themselves today. They refused to bloom. They refused to show up even in the mirror to tell themselves that they are enough. I will not forget you. I will use our memories as a souvenir of how much I am able to love, I will put your tears into a bottle, throw them into the ocean and hope they find you I will take out the dead flowers that you bought so they too can grow somewhere else. You be the rose in a sunflower garden tell them that reciting poetry is the only thing you've ever been good at.


Scheme A
Poetic Form
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Characters 531
Words 105
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 418
Words per line (avg) 105
Letters per stanza (avg) 418
Words per stanza (avg) 105

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Self love and loss

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Written on June 26, 2022

Submitted by nelisiwenhlabathi18 on June 29, 2022

Modified on April 06, 2023

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