Analysis of Pearl
Pearl. I'm deep in the ocean, and it's hard to see. Pearl. I know you're sharp, your jokes are jabbing me. Pearl. Don't lose that glimmer, tabloid summer, photo pay-per-view, Pearl. Can you still see them? Do they dance up on your screen? Pearl. I miss you, is that you? Pearl, you're the voice I hear when I am at my kindest, when I want the flowers growing, lawn mowing fences metal lenses picture taken Pearl. What have they taken? Pearl. My memory it fails me, Pearl forgive me, Pearl. I know it's late at night the gossip's dropping from the faucet as though we knew who had the score. But I can't even eat Roast anymore. And each and every time I put that sweetness to my lips I know it's foreign. The corners of my mouth pucker and I'm mourning, Pearl.
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Metre | 111001001111111111111011111101010111111111111111111111111110111111111011101010110101010101011111011100111101111111110110101011111101111101101010100111110111111100101111001101 |
Characters | 760 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 1 |
Lines Amount | 1 |
Letters per line (avg) | 575 |
Words per line (avg) | 143 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 575 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 143 |
About this poem
This poem deals with the grief I experienced caring for my Grandmother Pearl as she suffered from Alzheimer's.
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Written on December 09, 2018
Submitted by Bostonelements on July 19, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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