Analysis of The Fresco at Terezin's Concentration Camp



Crystal Memories
Fragmented shards
Cleansed scraps
Congealed into
Stucco Tears.
LOWNER THOMAS
Child of terror
Born in April
Like me.
On the fourth
Like me.
1935
I am 60.
He is never.


Scheme abcdefghIjIklg
Poetic Form
Metre 10100 1001 11 0101 101 110 1110 1010 11 101 11 1 11 1110
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 169
Words 32
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 10
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 146
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted on September 17, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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