Analysis of New Memories Rehearse
Deeply hidden within thoughts
that linger
A centuries old message to know
and then feel
Remembrance crying out from the
darkness approaching
In a voice so familiar—our fortune
to steal
It calls to us silent as it waits
for an answer
It calls to us closer as all
distance revokes
It calls from within us in a voice
our breath fosters
It calls us beyond all past anguish
and hope
The air now grows heavy with
a mist that induces
Words mate in the fog as the
letters reverse
The ending comes first, as the beginning
still chases
Sleep only forgiven as new memories
rehearse
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Scheme | AB XC DE XC XB XA XX XX XX DF EX XF X |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (36%) |
Metre | 1010011 110 010011011 011 01010110 10010 00110101010 11 111110111 1110 11111011 101 111011001 10110 111011110 01 0111101 011010 1100110 1001 0101110010 110 11001011100 01 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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