Analysis of IN THE CINEMA
I escape to the cinema
To escape my life’s trauma
One is supposed to lose oneself
With the excitement and the laughter
In front of us on the screen silver
Yet on the tapestry of my mind
Are pictures of my loss colossus
No mercy, no respite even in my conscience
Painful scenarios replay over and over
Playing havocs forever in my mind
While the gigantic screen plays scenes of all kinds
Inside the wall of my head all I see are flashes
Smouldering fires of distress
And foreboding dismay rekindled
No mercy, no respite, I cannot be reconciled
My beautiful daughter Bonnie
Was snatched cruelly from me
Her abode now is in the heavens above
Whilst we are succumbed beneath to endless despair
My beautiful daughter Bonnie and me
Like a pod of two peas
Used to go to the theatre and the concerts
So many times to the Cine’s
I fondly remember the art galleries
And quirky warehouse converted aires
My heart ache is bursting at its seams
With the agonising memories
Of my beautiful Bonnie and me
Side by side in the cinema
Starbucks coffee in her hand her panacea
With a blanket wrapped round her
Often she would go to sleep under
Only to patter my hand
When she alighted from her slumber
My heart is bursting at its seams
I am in the cinema with all these memories
Alas, there is no more my princess Bonnie
Cinema isn’t any more what it used to be
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Metre | 10110100 1011110 1101111 100100010 011110110 110100111 110111010 110110100110 1001000110010 101010011 10010111111 0101111111110 110101 001001010 110110110110 11001010 111011 00111001001 111010111001 1100101001 101111 111101000010 1101101 11001001100 010101010 111110111 101100 111001001 11100100 1100010010 1010110 101111110 1011011 1111010 11110111 1100100111100 01111111010 100110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,333 |
Words | 250 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 3, 7, 4, 6, 9, 4 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Painful memories, in the art galleries and the cinema with my beloved daughter, lost to suicide
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