Analysis of How Is It?



How is it that a day
filled with brightness and light
Is followed by a night
mired in lonely chilly darkness

How is it that a soul
soaring high above the clouds
Falls tumbling back down to Earth
wrapped in barbed coils of despair

How is it that a smile
well practiced and performed
So easily turns when all alone
into a longing sorrowful frown

How is it that couples
find everlasting enduring love
While others flail along the way
searching, waiting, hoping every day

How is it that the north wind blows
a storm laced with bitter cold
And those south of the hemisphere
enjoy heat on the longest wintery day

How is it that life goes on
regardless of humanity’s plight
I suppose it’s with goodwill and faith
I wish you all a goodnight


Scheme ABBX XXXX XXXX XXAA XXXA XBXB
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 111001 110101 10101010 111101 1010101 11001111 1011101 111101 110001 110011101 010101001 111110 10100101 11010101 1010101001 11110111 0111101 0111010 011101011 1111111 010111 101111101 111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 749
Words 148
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 99
Words per stanza (avg) 23

About this poem

A reflection on life’s dichotomies.

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Written on February 04, 2022

Submitted by ami.oferris on February 05, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris lives in Southport, NC. She is a published poet in Cameron Art Museum’s Writers Respond to Art Program and awarded the Certificate of Completion for completing the 2021 - 24 Hour Poetry Marathon. Her poem Wheels was chosen and published in the 2021 - 24 Hour Poetry Marathon Anthology. Her poem The Date has been chosen for publication in the 2022 - 24 Hour Poetry Marathon Anthology. She is a published author in Whisper’s & Echoes, an on-line literary magazine and in 50 Give or Take by Vine Leaves Press for her 50 word stories, Love, The Wedding and The Sleep Doctor. Also in Visual Verse with her poem Mother Earth. Ami is honored to have been published in Spillwords for her poem concerning current events, I Am Not A Man. Ami writes flash fiction, short stories, creative non-fiction and fiction as well as poetry. Her short story, Conversations With My Neighbor is published in Trouble, by Daniel Boone Publishing. Ami received Honorable Mention in Tales from the Moonlit Path 2021 their Halloween Issue, Abandoned Places Halloween Challenge, for her short story, Abandoned Memories. She has been published in Whispers and Echoes as follows - Rat-a-Tat-Tat-Tat - Wednesday 4th May 2022 Early Tulips - Wednesday 11th May 2022 Flying High - Wednesday 18th May 2022 She is currently working on her first action/adventure/paranormal romance novel. Ami is a member of NCWN (North Carolina Writer’s Network) and WFWN (Women’s Fiction Writer’s Network). She is a contributing member of several local writers groups including The Wilmington Write To Publish Group, Heron Clan Poetry, Women Writer’s Group and Living Poetry. Ami is known to her closest friends and relatives as Gypsie. more…

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