Analysis of She Never Knew
I was nineteen and oh so green
About the ways of death.
It was the year I felt the fear
When Dad took his last breath!
My mother cried the day he died
And I became the one
To help her through the pain she knew,
With all That could be done.
I felt that need so she'd succeed
While coping with her life
That had become both sad and numb
As mother and as wife.
She slowly found her way around
Her sadness so profound,
So that's when I began to cry
With tears of muffled sound!
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC DDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11110111 010111 11011101 111111 11010111 010101 11010111 111111 11111101 110101 11011101 110011 11010101 010101 11110111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 478 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
My Mother
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Written on January 11, 2024
Submitted by stevec.24118 on January 11, 2024
Modified by stevec.24118 on January 11, 2024
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