Analysis of My Memories Live
Slinking into live memories,
They say, “This is who you are,”
I know memories aren't perfect,
But they make me hate the world
I lie in tumult, and I fight to break my face,
To smile
Usually they are pictures that were never
Of love, but war and lies and of a losing battle,
Retreating as I come down to reality once more
Slipping into dark parts of dreary hearts
Is not weighing less than a star; I neglect
To reveal a “shameful life,” according to the
Plush and rosy picture of a stained white lie
So, my memories are hushing my disbelief,
For now
Why do we remember? To forget and to invent?
Is attacking my thoughts the only real altruistic
Reaction to a son of a b*st*rd, and to a friend of weakness?
Consider my neurons snapping the strict, deadening beat of
My heart, flaring and burning,
Yearning for… nothing,
I know not who I am, and
So, my memories live
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011100 1111111 111001001 1111101 110100111111 11 100011101010 1111010101010 010111111011 1001111101 11101101101 101010101010 10101010111 1110011101 11 1110101010101 1010110101010 010101101110101110 010110100110011 1110010 10110 1111110 111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 851 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on February 21, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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