Analysis of Better Today

julie leyraud 1960 (USA)



Memories of old fill my feeble mind,
Happy one's release me, sad ones bind.
A smile, a tear, an intense moment of fear,
All mixing together moments of yester year.
I bathe in the years of cold and warm,
Sands of time show my body forlorn.
My feet have carried me low and high,
Terrains of my life, the legacy of why.
Winds of my life at times blew me down,
Yet deep within, many sails I found.
Rain! ever present in journies untold,
Shelter I sought, to go on, be bold.
Sunshine beams radiate diamonds of time,
Diamonds that were once coal, sparkle,shine.
Years that seem like they would never end,
Pictures flash by, spiders their web spin.
One lapping the other as though yesterday,
Reminded am I, memories to better today.


Scheme AABBCDEEFGHHIDJKLL
Poetic Form
Metre 1001111101 101011111 01011011011 11001010111 110011101 111111001 111101101 01111010011 111111111 110110111 110100101 101111111 111001011 1010111 111111101 101110111 1100101110 0101110011001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 708
Words 134
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 562
Words per stanza (avg) 133
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Submitted by Juliea777 on August 31, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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