Analysis of A Flicker of Memory
ANTHONY GAGLIARDI 1977 (Plymouth)
In crawls the break of day
as beaches glitter with the innocence
of a child's eye.
The tide churns ever so slightly
as to lull asleep the blades of grass
that climb honorably to the blue canvas
painting our closest universe.
Hours melt into the bright reflection
of ocean glass smoothed to stone
while minutes gasp their last breath
and accept their extinction.
As an ensuing mist glazes the eyes
of even the busiest soul,
we embrace the warmth
of an old hooded sweatshirt
that once caught rain.
Scheme | XXX XXXX AXXA XXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111 1101010100 1011 01110110 111010111 11100010110 10101010 1010101010 1101111 1101111 0011010 1110011001 11001001 10101 111101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 498 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
Thoughts and feelings on a beach sunset in Nags Head. Written in the early 2000's.
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