Analysis of I Wonder What You Look Like Now.
I reflect on what you look like now!
You were beauteous when I saw you last.
What precious gifts did time endow?
All those years of tranquil absence
As you slumbered away the time somehow.
I wonder if your eyes remain bright,
They always looked at me kindly.
I think that, if you're at home tonight,
I could give you a call ~ perhaps...
Or should I just simply write?
I expect that you smile as you always could;
Intriguing, enchanting, and toasty warm.
But you smiled for me today ~ I knew you would
(In any case I've misplaced your number).
I must be more careful ~ I know I should.
Do you think of me, perchance?
When days are long and nights are cold.
Bestow on me a passing glance?
Think of times, now far away ~ Distant?
A sombre time, a valedictory happenchance.
I should visit but what's to gain?
~ To see, now, how you are?
It could easily even cause you pain.
I would come soon, now! today!
But outside it looks like rain.
Scheme | AXABA CXCXC DXDXD EXEXB FXFXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111111 10111111 11011101 11111010 11101011 110111011 1111110 111111101 11110101 1111101 1011111111 010010011 11111011111 0101101110 1111101111 1111101 11110111 01110101 111110110 011001001 11101111 111111 1110010111 1111101 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 910 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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From 2007, here is a quintet of quintains.
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