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
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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Kassandra M. Konecny

Kassandra Konecny is a lover of listening to music, hiking in the mountains, and observing the way people act. She began writing vigorously when she was fourteen and will hopefully never stop. She has had her fair share of trials lately, and tries to encompass nearly every subject there is to study into her writing. Kassandra plans to study creative writing and psychology. She's 17 and currently lives in Utah with her family. Contact her at kassandrakonecny@hotmail.com more…

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