Analysis of A child’s laugh



Children…
Children are a gift to you,
They come through you, not from you,
To bring the world it’s puzzle piece of destiny,
If only we could bottle their laughter,
Moving it from one place,
To Every place,
Reserving it for our gloomiest day,
Where we pour it out into the stale air,
Releasing its intoxicating sound into the darkest room, at the darkest hour,
It’s light would hit the wavelengths of the room, traveling through dimensions of time and space which are not seen by the eye but felt by the heart..
A child’s laugh, so pure, and so innocent a sound,
Enters into a persons being through the ears,
Traveling at light speed directly to the heart,
It’s vibrations sweep the cob webs off the dusty shelves within the chambers of the heart,
Helping it to beat once again, at its full capacity,
Boom..boom..boom..
The heart plays it’s drum, remembering its long lost sheet of music,
BOOM.. BOOM.. it plays,
Confidently remembering its place in natures orchestra,
The rhythms of life and love belong to the heart,
It rejoices, thankful to the laughter,
For the laughter came with its set of master keys,
To unlock what once was forgotten,
And as we close the now empty jar,
The room is brighter,
The music in our chest playing it song for all to hear,
We remember that children are the gift,
They come through you,
Not from you.


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (27%)
Metre 10 1010111 1111111 110111011100 1101110110 101111 11001 010111011 1111101011 010101001010101101010 11110110110010101101111110111101 011110110001 100101010101 100111010101 101010111010101010101 101111011110100 1 0111101001111110 1111 1000010011010100 010110101101 11101010 101011111101 101111010 011101101 01110 010010110111111 1010110101 1111 111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,348
Words 269
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 30
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 1,041
Words per stanza (avg) 239

About this poem

In loving memory of Leo Gladson 05/12/2009 - 07/23/2013

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Written on May 25, 2022

Submitted by brendaelizabeth83 on May 25, 2022

Modified on March 11, 2023

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Brenda Elizabeth Vice

I’m Brenda Vice, 34, from independence, IA. I’ve been expressing myself through writing and poems since I was a child. It’s a part of me now. more…

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