Analysis of Memory
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
I wish I could plant a forest
where every tree is a memory
that we share.
mostly good and not bad.
then you and I
can live there
off the grid,
just us,
living amongst ourselves
and every moment
that made us smile.
Scheme | ABCDECFGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111010 1100110100 111 101011 1101 111 101 11 1001001 010010 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 216 |
Words | 50 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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