Analysis of Mollusk of Old Days
Opening up parts of my past, I sadly see,
there have been low days in September,
that I would rather not remember,
because they’ve revealed a lie to me.
But if I’d wiped those from my memory,
I would have lost their lovely fruits as well,
so I’ve compressed the prangs of history,
and tucked those away in a solid shell.
These days, when that time of year arrives,
I just reflect on the flows of our lives,
on how, in our own ways, we forbear
the losses that are simply lying there.
| Scheme | ABBA ACAC XXBX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 100111111101 111110010 111101010 011010111 1111111100 1111110111 1101011100 0110100101 111111101 11011011101 110101111 0101110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 478 |
| Words | 93 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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