Analysis of A Pleasant Memory



A cloud of cigarette smoke
gently kisses wintered air
caressing my thoughts
as I remember her, forever

in blue jeans, ski jacket and tartan scarf,
dusky locks, escaping a brilliantly delightful
Bolivian wool hat, framing her rosy-cheeks,
full lips and smoky mocha eyes
aflood with immaculate warmth

and there she stood in the doorway,
shivering on Mulberry Street,
patiently enduring the cold,
as we smoked one last cigarette,
before it we said goodbye.


Scheme XXXX XXXXX XXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 011011 1010101 01011 110100010 0111100101 110100100010 010011100101 11010101 1101001 0111001 1001101 10001001 1111101 011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 468
Words 88
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 5
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 123
Words per stanza (avg) 24

About this poem

Just a snapshot of a moment in 1993, outside Paisano's in Manhattan's Little Italy, now frozen in time.

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Written on April 05, 2006

Submitted by TheOutlawHalo on April 16, 2023

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Robert B. Repenning

Grab shaker. Fill with five decades in Hudson Valley. Mix equal parts: Passion for family, friends, pet-parenting Teddy, Luna and Charlie. Passion for music, literature, philosophy, art, nature, and matters of the heart and the soul. Shake it up. Pour onto a blank page. Season with piquant words, images and memories. Serve chilled in distinctive poems. more…

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