Analysis of Core Memories
Core memories in my understanding are ones you don’t forget.
There are about 50 core memories in my head
but the ones that will never be dead are the ones about my mother.
These are memories like the way she carried around a scent
of autumn full of pine cones and pumpkin spice.
And her warm embrace when she tucked me in at night.
My mom’s love for me was so great and bright
that I still remember it and I say this with pride.
I remember how she would never wear an outfit without a smile
and made every moment I spent with her worthwhile.
But another person who has my mom, Grace, in their core memories is my dad.
He was always 10 times happier when she was around.
And If I do say their love for each other was very profound.
He’s always telling me how much I resembled her both in looks and personality.
But that wasn’t the same case when it came to my mentality.
My mother really was a fighter whose happiness made her burden lighter, Her burden of fighting stage 4 cancer.
She passed away when I was eight which was tough at first but,
my dad gave me the aid to get through it.
I will always remember the last words she said to me before she died.
She said“Don’t cry dear, just know that I’ll always be here.
And when you look at the stars at night Junebug,
and see such a wonderful sight
just know I’ll be watching over you,
and listening to you too.
Scheme | XXA XXBBC DDX EEFF AXX C XXBGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110001010111101 11011100011 10111101110101110 111001011100101 11011110101 001011111011 1111111101 1110101011111 1010111101110101 0110010111011 10101011111011100111 111110011101 0111111111011001 11101111010010100100 111011111110100 1101010101100101010010110110 11011111111111 1111011111 11101001111110111 11111111111 0111101111 01101001 111110101 0100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,393 |
Words | 290 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 5, 3, 4, 3, 1, 5 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
About this poem
This is an elegy on a girl that lost her mother to cancer.
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Written on April 14, 2022
Submitted by letticiamugala on April 14, 2022
Modified on May 01, 2023
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