Analysis of Muted Symbols of Memory.
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
There is a sense in silence
A sense somehow we know
Something driving memory
Not sight nor scent or tone
Explosions in the emptiness
Like pieces funnelling through
Sometimes they're creations
Pictures there that grew
Perhaps they overwhelm us
Then we cannot sit still
One day I will describe it
But I am rather I'll
I cannot take my mind of it
But inside I am brill'.
Jesus said describe it
And so I speak to you
I can't take my chair to heaven
But the angels walk me through.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGFEHIJIHIFKF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010 01111 1010100 111111 01000100 11011 011010 10111 011011 111011 1111011 111101 11011111 101111 101011 011111 11111110 1010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 459 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 381 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
About this poem
Emptiness fulfills the thoughts.
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Written on October 26, 2021
Submitted by heathert.34240 on October 26, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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