Analysis of I Knew
I knew your dad had died
but now your mum and brother too
and the death notice wasn’t clear
- it might also have been you
I only have one photo
on the train from York to Leeds
of an ordinary young woman
- no jewellery or beads
it doesn’t show the passion
and the real love we shared
just a dirty old carriage
where nobody cared
I should have been bolder
I wish I’d loved more
and now I cannot open
that unique, gentle door
in the fading picture
your eyes are tightly closed
and you just suppress a smile
as if you had dozed
for all these awkward years
then suddenly woken,
our love was right there
still unspoken
Scheme | XAXA XBCB CDXD EFCF EGXG XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111 11110101 0011011 1110111 110111 1011111 11100110 1111 111010 001111 1010110 111 111110 11111 0111010 101101 001010 111101 0110101 11111 111101 110010 101111 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on January 25, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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