Analysis of The Woman in My Life
A long time ago, I loved a girl ..
I loved her more then, but I love her still
I think about her now and again
And I guess, somehow I always will
She had sunny hair and shining eyes ..
And it seemed as tho' she always smiled
She wore pretty colored gowns of blue and white
Bows of green and shoes of brown
And when I was young, she would follow me
Through countryside and town
She followed me down to the lake one day
And stood and watched over me carefully
as I sat by my favorite fishing hole
I thought surely she knew by now
that I was master at the bamboo pole
But if she knew, she didn't show it
She just stood there looking on ..
Then darkness came, and she disappeared
.. had she gone?
Tho' somehow I felt her still near ...
She stayed in the past,
and in the distance for some time
and didn't seem to want to come around again ..
But then ..
I caught a glimpse of now-darkened sunny hair
and she had tears in her eyes
And she told me very softly .. she was going to die ..
“No, not just yet..” she whispered
She would take care 'til I passed on
“But your children..” she sobbed, “.. i'm sorry ..”
“And i'm sorry we've been apart so long..”
Yes, I still think about the woman in my life
And I still see her once in a while
And she'll still be at the end of my life
When they lay me down on style
And at long last, as tho' a dream come true ..
my body .. one .. with hers ...
Scheme | XABA CX XDED XEFXF XGXX XXXBB XCXXGEX HIHI XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011011101 1101111101 110101001 0111111 111010101 01111111 11101011101 1110111 0111111101 11001 1101110111 0101101100 11111100101 11101111 1111010011 111111011 1111101 11010101 111 1111011 11001 00010111 010111110101 11 11011110101 0111001 01111010111011 1111110 11111111 111011110 0110110111 111101010011 011101001 0111101111 1111111 0111110111 110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,407 |
Words | 298 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 4, 5, 4, 5, 7, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
About this poem
A riddle in verse about my truest love... I leave it to the reader to guess who... ;-)
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Written on July 20, 2011
Submitted by oldoccpu on February 19, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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