Analysis of Lovely Smile



How could something so beautiful
Be broken inside

If she said her heart was black
Who would look past her radiant smile?

How could something so rusted
Be shiny outside
So bright, you can't look twice

How could something so small
Be larger than life

And when you see tears in her eyes
You feel a speckle of dust fell inside
Who would believe her life so sad

How can someone so kind
Be tortured inside
The voices in her head
A constant reminder

How could they have known
Her light had flickered out
When her eyes twinkles
Like the stars in the night sky
An angel in your sight
Bears so many demons inner

It's just really puzzling
How they said she was gone
She couldn't live no more
So you just wondered how
I never saw the signs
Was I so blind?

A facade so glam
She had always put up
Everyone believed she was strong
She never spoke up
She had the most beautiful smile
And just a broken life

Indeed the saddest smiles the brightest
They'll never ever know
How broken you truly are
My darling friend
With the lovely smile.


Scheme XA XB XAX XC XAX DAXE XXXXXE XXXXXD XFXFBC XXXXB
Poetic Form
Metre 11101100 11001 1110111 111101001 1110110 11011 111111 111011 11011 01111001 1101011101 11010111 11111 11001 010001 010010 11111 011101 10110 1010011 110011 11101010 1110100 111111 110111 111101 110101 1111 00111 11111 1001111 11011 11011001 010101 010101010 110101 1101101 1101 10101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,091
Words 242
Sentences 5
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 6, 5
Lines Amount 39
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 82
Words per stanza (avg) 20

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All it takes is a beautiful smile to hide a broken heart and they will never know how broken you truly are

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Submitted by faithadejumo04 on December 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Adejumo Elizabeth

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