Analysis of Days I Must Not Forget
These are days I must not forget
Sunlit days, my soul warmed deep, without regret.
Unfettered feelings before there was shame,
Set free to soak the sun's healing flame.
Days of sweetness that gave me life.
Days of kisses with visions of night.
Serene sensual hope set free
Begins the quest for autonomy.
I see Terry Graebner running so fast.
Her feet bare. Bare footed in the grass.
She was waiting for me at the end of the day
On old Sligo Golf Course on the last fairway.
Young, alive, an impassioned runner
As the sun's rays streaked low at the end of summer.
Her olive skin and jet-black hair,
Fresh and moist in the humid air.
It was me she was thrilled to see,
To hug and kiss. Me. Only me.
We had kissed one time before,
Pressed against her basement's knotty pine door.
No one home, just we two,
To touch and feel and smell a new
And different way of life.
Two nine year olds,
Our souls unite
Like ancient beings.
Beings of Light.
My life ended that day.
Nothing else to require.
Only the intermingling, intertwined breath.
Breath that melded in to eternal desire.
Scheme | AABBCDEE XXFFGGHHEE IIJJCXDXD FGXG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 1111110101 0101001111 111101101 11101111 111011011 01100111 010110100 1110101011 011110001 111011101101 111111011 101101010 101111101110 01010111 10100101 11111111 11011101 1111101 101011011 111111 11010101 0100111 1111 1011 11010 1011 111011 101110 10001000011 111001010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,074 |
Words | 225 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 10, 9, 4 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
About this poem
A Sweet Remembrance
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Written on May 19, 2014
Submitted by jfstandards47 on December 08, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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