Analysis of In A Smile
A smile holds so many things,
yours holds my heart with strings.
when tears flood my flushed face,
and I am torn from place to place,
a curved line solves it all,
a big change for something so small.
With a smile, I keep a secret,
full of everything but regret,
I am pulled away from the day,
summoned from the frightful gray,
to announce all and nothing with a smile,
to emit my joy from mile to mile.
A grin begs for reassurance,
and investment made for insurance,
a friendly gesture from across the room,
banishing the dark blackened clouds of gloom,
presenting the careful a sight to see,
how much better could this be?
That wonderful expression of face,
send from God in his best grace,
keeps me joyful in a world so black,
carries me away from thoughts of lack,
and pulls me into a world unseen,
where nothing is anything but clean.
Scheme | AABBCC XXDDEE FFGGHH BBIIJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111101 111111 111111 01111111 011111 01111011 10111010 1110101 11101101 1010101 1011010101 101111111 0111010 001011010 0101010101 1000110111 0100100111 1110111 110001011 1110111 111000111 101011111 011010101 11011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 816 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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