Analysis of DREADFUL MEMORIES
The dreadful memories that haunt your life
Will slowly start to fade,
As the years pass surely by
And you march on t’ward your grave.
As Alzheimer’s begins to clutch at you
And awful memories they do dim,
You grow e’er grateful to the Lord
As you’re slow approaching Him.
Until clouds of senility
Come to mask your awful grief,
The terrors of your life’s mem’ries
Are ever at the reach.
So roll on sweet senility
To take ‘way many of life’s pains,
Take from me the horrid grief
To never let come again.
As my memory, it doth fade
My eyes fast growing weak,
Bring back to me sweet solitude
That the dreadful memories break.
With age comes many aches and pain
Much of the physical kind,
But gladly I will take these pains
To have veils placed o’er my mind.
Blessed veils of forgetfulness
That takes from me the horror of life,
That take away the agony of mem’ry
And leave serenity rife.
For memories are a hurting thing
That brings more pain than pleasure,
And with their loss, my life improves
No more grieving to endure.
One day these awful memories will pass
Hid in the seas of sweet senility,
Until that day mem'ries bring you pain
And you hope for death to bring finality.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABXX XCXC DEFX DFEX BXXX GHFH FAIA XIFI FDGD XFX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101001111 110111 1011101 0111111 11011111 010100111 11110101 1110101 01110100 1111101 0101111 110101 11110100 11110111 1110101 1101101 11100111 111101 1111110 10101001 11110101 1101001 11011111 1111111 1111 111101011 1101010011 0101001 110010101 1111110 01111101 1110101 1111010011 1001110100 01111111 01111110100 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,229 |
Words | 228 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
About life in Melbourne's west and the awfulness of memory.
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Written on April 19, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on July 22, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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