Analysis of I Could

Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)



I could take your complex words.
Read them. Edit them. Make them heard.
Risk using one of them like a bird
I borrow in the wind. Every third verse.
I could drain one; wring it dry.
Form a gentle lullaby.
I could listen with a sigh.
Feel despite the pace being too fast to hear every word I find like mine.
I could take your meaning.
Visualise it dreaming. Even cry the longer you say each one with your heart screaming.
I could sort the words into my perfect sentence.
Expand them into my own remembrance. Vicariously think what it would be like just you and me.
I could have them be a part of my life like you held them part of yours.
I could.


Scheme ABBCDDDEFFGHIJ
Poetic Form
Metre 1111101 11101111 110111101 1100110011 1111111 101010 1110101 1010110111110011111 111110 1110101010111111110 111010110110 0110111010010001111111101 11111011111111111 11
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 645
Words 138
Sentences 18
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 500
Words per stanza (avg) 126
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Written on February 16, 2023

Submitted by heathert.34240 on February 16, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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