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
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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Submitted by AlanSJeeves on July 15, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Alan S Jeeves

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