Analysis of Memory

Saskia Griffith 1994 (Guyana)



Those days were gloomy,
painful and heart rendering,
the racism which was thrown  at me,
was not funny at all,
I was beaten on,
my water was spat in as well,
many days I ran home to my grandmother crying,
though I've been through it,
my heart does not extend a single hatred,
but this memory is one I wanna forget,,
for it was not pretty at all.


Scheme ABACDEBFGHC
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 1001100 01011111 111011 11101 11011011 101111111010 11111 11110101010 111001111001 11111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 345
Words 78
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 264
Words per stanza (avg) 69

About this poem

While in Primary I've been through the worst when it came to racism.

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Written on August 27, 2022

Submitted by sweetrinelsa on August 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Saskia Griffith

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