Analysis of The Memory
. The Memory
Daylight crawls on my window sill where I
left my eyes watching you.
Watching you across the endless fields of remembrance.
Dreaming of your memory, like a shadow walking
with me in the daylight. Then a silhouette of you in
the moonlight.
I hold you closely as if the memory of you cannot
be washed away.
As if you were like fibers to be forever quilted in my
destiny, not ever releasing me to be free.
I arise from my slumber to gaze over the sun melted
day. The sunlight glistens but carries not a aura of warmth.
I am cold inside.
You left me vacant.
The rose and the violet have died.
The rose and the violet will not see Spring.
the rose became the violet and the dream became
the rose.
Their beauty was our memory, we were they.
They say, the poet writes about peace and love
in romance.
And they say, the poet never find peace or love,
in romance.
Could this be true? Could this be really true?
It is now mid-year and I am wondering which
direction I should take.
I am in need, of God.
The pulse to my poetry is weak.
The pace is broken.
My poetry is thirsting like a plant which needs
water and sunlight.
Romance and love is the nature to its growth.
Romance is the life-blood of a poet.
And also the pain and memory with wings, regretfully,
is a part of its spawning.
The rose and violet, once again died.
Only to bring new petals, under a new sun, under
a new rain.
There is now a reverie.
Even though it was I who fell in love, unintentionally.
My feelings for you were never divided.
You were so important to me.
And when you left, another dream crumbled.
It is so cold outside.
You were my creativity, my genius, my artistic melody
and the sweetness of my livelihood.
I have now become words.
I paint you in vast sunsets.
I put you inside rainbow houses.
I play you with violins.
You are, and you were, my expression.
I will always contain you to my memory.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100 111110111 111101 1010101011010 101110010110 110011001110 01 111101101001110 1101 1110110110101001 1001100101111 101111011100110 1011110101011 11101 11110 010010011 01001001111 0101010000101 01 110110100101 11010101101 001 011010101111 001 1111111101 111110111001 010111 110111 011110011 01110 11001110111 1001 01011010111 0110111010 010010100110100 1011110 0101001011 10111101001110 011 1110100 101111110101000 11011010010 10101011 0111010110 111111 10101001101010100 00101110 111011 111011 11101110 1111001 110101010 11101111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,923 |
Words | 416 |
Sentences | 42 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3, 5, 3, 3, 1, 3, 2, 2, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 53 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
a return home to a love that was lost.
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Written on April 28, 1996
Submitted by luthermaddox on May 16, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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