Analysis of ALZHEIMER’S (Told from my Mother's P.O.V.)

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



I wander round the darkened room
And wonder who I am,
I try to recall where this is
And forget the night I ran:

Terror in the full of night
I must escape the gloom,
I’m fleeing through the streets at night
Escaping killers in my room.

It’s not my fault at all you see
I’m a little girl of nine,
I’m searching for the pathway home
I’m searching all the time.

My gaoler tells me off, he says
I almost burnt the house down,
But a policeman told me I was good
And a banker, and a clown.

Strangers take me by the arm
And drag me to their car,
They say they’re carers sent to help
And that we won’t go far:

But they’re working for my gaoler
A man I’d love to kill,
He stole me from my youngest son
A man whose name is Phil.

I must escape my gaoler
To report him to the police,
They’ll lock him up for many years
And I shall be released.

I plan to kill my gaoler
Oh, I wish I had a gun,
I go to bash his head in
Then see he is my son!

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Scheme AXXX BABA XXXX XCXC XDXD DEFE DXXX DFXF XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 010111 1111111 0010111 1000111 110101 11010111 01010011 11111111 1010111 1101011 110101 1111111 111011 1001011111 0010001 1011101 011111 1111111 011111 1110111 011111 11111101 011111 110111 10111001 11111101 011101 111111 1111101 1111110 111111 01 101010 100100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 985
Words 208
Sentences 7
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 84
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Modified on March 26, 2023

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