Analysis of Valentine's Smile



It's the smile of a child
that feels happy and free
bringing joy to my heart
setting goals for me.

It's the laughter with friends
that don't mind my mistakes
turning cries into joy
till the morning breaks.

It's the light in your eyes
that I seek to enflame
warm it up every day
in a we-win-game.


Scheme XAXA XBXB XCXC
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 101101 111001 101111 10111 101011 111101 101011 10101 101011 11111 1111001 00111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 297
Words 61
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 77
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted by ludy_b on February 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ludy Bührs

The topics she writes about are very diverse, so are the poetry styles she applies. As a Dutch translator and poet, having lived in Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh for 2.5 years, in 2008 she published "Op de ruïnes van een rijk" (On the Ruins of an Empire) ISBN 978-90-8834-483-1 with 60 poems based on her experiences there. In 2007 she received a Certificate of Accomplishment as one of The Best Poems and Poets of 2007 issued by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry for her poem Choked Truth, her own translation of "Verstikte waarheid", one of the poems in the book. Born in 1956, she still works as an independent translator, translating from English into Dutch. more…

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