Analysis of Memory
Zora Bernice May Cross 1890 (Eagle Farm, Queensland) – 1964 (Glenbrook, New South Wales)
Late, late last night, when the whole world slept,
Along to the garden of dreams I crept.
And I pulled the bell of an old, old house
Where the moon dipped down like a little white mouse.
I tapped the door and I tossed my head:
"Are you in, little girl? Are you in?" I said.
And while I waited and shook with cold
Through the door tripped me---just eight years old.
I looked so sweet with my pigtails down,
Tied up with a ribbon of dusky brown,
With a dimpled chin full of childish charme,
And my old black dolly asleep in my arms.
I sat me down when I saw myself,
And I told little tales of a moonland elf.
I laughed and sang as I used to do
When the world was ruled by Little Boy Blue.
Then I danced with a toss and a twirl
And said: "Now have you been a good, good girl?
Have you had much spanking since you were Me?
And does it feel fine to be twenty-three?"
I kissed me then, and I said farewell,
For I've earned more spanks than I dared to tell,
And Eight must never see Twenty-three
As she peeps through the door of Memory.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFGHHIIJJFKLLKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110111 0110101111 0110111111 10111101011 110101111 11010111011 011100111 101111111 11111111 111010111 1010111101 01111001011 11111111 0111011011 110111111 1011111011 111101001 0111110111 1111101101 0111111101 11110111 1111111111 011101101 1111011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,014 |
Words | 212 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 784 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 208 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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