Lyric Poem · Inspirational
A Sentence of Yours Stays
A lesson lasts an hour;
a term is just a phase;
but somewhere in each student,
a sentence of yours stays.
It surfaces in interviews,
at crossroads, in the dark:
you thought you taught a subject —
you taught us how to start.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- A Sentence of Yours Stays
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Rhyming Poems
- Themes
- Inspirational
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 8 lines · 2 quatrains
- Line length
- Lines run 6-8 syllables (median 7). No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalA Sentence of Yours Stays, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 706afe6da9182d42…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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