Analysis of Buildings of Love?
Daniel E. Mayon 1948 (Galena Park, Texas)
Old saggy roofs flash through my mind,
Buildings of love; pierce pass me in time.
I can't see faces, not even traces,
Just memories a stranger erases.
Where drift of life once passed and laid,
Behind every closed and open shade.
How many dreams and joyful nights?
Were heard by others, left and right.
Sadness, laughter, joy
Once roamed the halls.
Pulchritudinous songs of life, visits us all.
Often, pain plunges through each room.
As friends gather 'round to morn or groom.
I refuse to look, see that moon?
Soon filled with cries, of newborn babes,
We love to vision happiness,
As the living age.
Children trained, faces change,
Does anyone care to make it known
What each building of love,
Once held,
Once owned?
Scheme | ABCDEEFGHIJKKLMNOPQRST |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 101111101 1111011010 1100010010 11111101 0110010101 11010101 01110101 10101 1101 11111011 10110111 111011111 10111111 11111101 11110100 10101 101101 11011111 111011 11 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 715 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 559 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
About this poem
When driving down the road we always wonder who lived in that house or that house. They all have had every tragedy in life and also experienced lots of happy times.
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Written on December 08, 1990
Submitted by mayonde on February 12, 2022
Modified on March 23, 2023
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