Analysis of Blurred Memories...
Robert Catron 1963 (Kansas)
Have you ever tried to get someone to stop drinking,
Then wondered - what was I thinking?
I can tell you I've been there - that's hard to say,
Eleven years ago I buried my mom from the bottles way.
I watered it down - I poured it out - I tried it all,
It just made her more mad - she would fly off the wall.
I watched her blame the whole world - except for herself,
It was hard to watch her drink her life away from a wine shelf.
At times she was happy - most times she was sad,
I watched it change her personality from good to bad.
She made us all feel guilty for making her that way,
Even thou it was her hand that held the glass and drank her life away.
After she passed away we walked thru all of the memories of childhood,
That's when it finally hit me that she had chosen her path - none of us trying to stop her would of done any good.
She wanted to die - she just had chosen the slow and numb way,
I wonder if it ever crosses her mind just how much we miss and need her today?
In Loving Memory Of My Mom
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEBBFFBB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011111110 11011110 11111111111 0101011101110101 1101111111111 111011111101 110101101101 111110101011011 11111011111 1111001001111 1111110110011 10111011101010101 10110111111010011 11110011111100111110110111101 110111111001011 110111010011111101001 010100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,013 |
Words | 231 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 13 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 385 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
About this poem
A page from my life.
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