Analysis of "The Tone Of Voice" (56)
"The tone of voice"
"It's not so much what we say
As the manner in which we say it;
It's not so much the language we use
As the tone in which we convey it;
“Come here!”, I sharply said,
And the child cowered and wept.
“Come here,” I said-
He looked and smiled
And straight to my lap he crept."
"Words may be mild and fair
And the tone may pierce like a dart;
Words may be soft as the summer air;
But the tone may break my heart;
For words come from the mind
Grow by study and art----
But tone leaps from the inner self
Revealing the state of the heart."
Whether we know it or not,
Whether we mean or care,
Gentleness, kindness, love, and hate,
Envy, anger, are there.
Then, would we quarrels avoid
And peace and love rejoice?
Keep anger not only out of your words-
Keep it out of your voice.”
I thought an excellent message for all of us to learn.
Hope to all who read this be truly blessed with the content so true.
Scheme | AXBXBCDCXD EFEFXFXF XEXEXAXA XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111 1111111 101001111 111101011 101011011 111101 001101 1111 1101 0111111 111101 00111101 111110101 1011111 111101 111001 11110101 01001101 1011111 101111 10010101 101011 1111001 010101 1101101111 111111 11110010111111 1111111101101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 900 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 8, 8, 2 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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