Analysis of Today
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
Dear child of today.
Today I write to you.
This poem to greet you.
To meet you.
To say I see you.
See you as today.
You are my today.
Today I forgot how it is to be you.
Today is forever
A time spent together.
Wherever you are.
On this or that star.
Today you had many things to say.
I hear you.
I love you.
You are my prayer.
And will always be there.
Today is you.
Without you there is no tomorrow.
Each today will reach out to you.
Take today.
Claim today I am the day.
Share today in a good way.
| Scheme | ABBBBAABCCDDABBEEBFBAAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 011111 110111 111 11111 11101 11101 01101111111 011010 011010 01011 11111 011110111 111 111 1111 01111 0111 01111101 10111111 101 1011101 1010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 499 |
| Words | 127 |
| Sentences | 22 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 23 |
| Lines Amount | 23 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 372 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Written on September 24, 2022
Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on September 23, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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