Analysis of Your Smile
Loneliness visits
when stranded alone
Confirming the emptiness
—lost to bemoan
The darker the moment
the thicker it spreads
To lie and to cover
—my spirit in dread
It blocks every motion
I make to get out
Its shroud to enshadow
—within and without
As somber it tenants
it knows all the while
Its life but a memory
—the moment you smile
(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)
| Scheme | XAXA BXXX XCBC XDXD X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 11001 0100100 1101 010010 01011 110110 11001 1110010 11111 1111 01001 110110 11101 1110100 01011 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 373 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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