Analysis of Memory

Milka Bachman 1972 (Santa Clara)



I've spent my days
folding a star into an origami

I sat at the edges of my reason
and wrote a book of wisdom

Your soul is still too young
to understand what conscience is

These nights, I walk around
the memories of us with caution
for broken things
tend to have sharp edges

There is always a place within me
drowning in your absence


Scheme XA BA XX XBXX AX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 10010111 1110101110 0101110 111111 1011101 111101 010011110 1101 111110 11101011 100110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 337
Words 70
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 4, 2
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 53
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Written on August 24, 2022

Submitted by mjbachman2 on August 24, 2022

Modified on April 18, 2023

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