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 |
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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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