Analysis of Remembrance

Joseph Seamon Cotter 1861 (Louisville) – 1949



Forget?
Ah, never!
Your eyes, your voice, your lips.
Those little ways of love,
Half-childish yet all-wise
That held me but a slave to you,
Will never loose their bonds.
The power to forget
Would Fate but yield to me.

Remember?
Ah, too well!
The hurt, the pain, the grief.
The wrack of nightly dreams,
The ruth of brooding days,
Have left a lesion in my soul
That only Heaven can heal.
Remembrance is the lot
That Fate does hold for me.


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Poetic Form
Metre 01 110 111111 110111 110111 11110111 110111 010101 111111 010 111 010101 011101 011101 11010011 1101011 010101 111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 443
Words 84
Sentences 11
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 9, 9
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 167
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Joseph Seamon Cotter

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. was an American playwright, author and poet from Louisville, Kentucky most remembered for his posthumously published one-act play On The Fields of France in addition to numerous volumes of poetry. more…

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