Analysis of If It Ain't Worth Remembering
Patches on the quilt of life,
letters sew not rend
Memory darning time to time,
future warmth depends
Words left tattered, words that bind,
ragged breath portends
To stitch it once and have it last
—tomorrow on the mend
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
Inspired By Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Ronnie Van Zant
“If It Ain’t Worth Remembering, It Ain’t No Good”
| Scheme | XA XB AB AA XAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010111 10111 1001111 10101 1110111 10101 11110111 01101 010010100 0101111011 111101001111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 358 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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