Analysis of In My Mind's Eye (1 of 3)
When I was young a long, long time ago
(In another world so far, far away),
In my mind's eye, we were very, very rich
In every which way, as all the others...
All ten thousand plus of us, sea-and-sun-
Loving people of Virac (Catanduanes).
Every family had a farm where pigs, goats
And chicken and water buffalos and cows
Roam the fields of rice and corn free.
Every man, woman and child in
Every family was not just a friend and
Neighbor, but a "nonoy or boboy,
A manoy or papay and a caca or manay."
Where I am now, twenty five thousand plus
Of them legal and illegal are living, err...
Dying in the streets of the city.
Scheme | ABCDEDFGHIJKELMH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011101 0010111101 01111010101 01001111010 1110111101 1010111 100100101111 0100101001 10111011 100110010 100100111010 1010111 0111000111 1111101101 111000101101 100011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 469 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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