Analysis of Watching The Calendar Turn
Fighting my memory,
I watched the calendar turn
Flashes of my grandfather
Racing through my mind
Age wasn’t supposed to be like this
Or then…maybe it was
Followed by darkness
Then more darkness again
Where is the light
Hours of larceny
Time being stolen
Waiting, waiting
Fighting with my
Memory,
—watching the calendar turn
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2013)
| Scheme | AB C XXX XX X A XX XAB C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101100 1101001 101110 10111 11011111 111011 10110 111001 1101 101100 11010 1010 1011 100 1001001 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 367 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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