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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