Analysis of Sa Memoire
A shadow hides behind your smile
in the Riviera sun
Parisian moments long ago
our love had just begun
A child born then lost to time
whose laughter still we hear
As life took back its greatest gift
—his memory to endear
(Mayenne France: April, 1978)
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110111 000101 01010101 1011101 0111111 110111 11111101 1100101 1110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 254 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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