Analysis of phrases



Phrases are so very true.
I have several ones for you.
"Out of sight is out of mind."
They say"Love is often blind."

You hear them say this every day.
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."
"The good things in life are free."

All these phrases make you clever.
Do you know "Better late than never."
Have you known and often heard.
So many phrases about a bird.

About the sun, a cloud, your heart.
Yes phrases can make you very smart.
I have a favorite one, I'll say.
My phrase is "You have made my day!"
        Elisabeth Clark Harcrow


Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF GGCCX
Poetic Form
Metre 1011101 1110111 1111111 111101 111111001 11001101001 0101011101 0110111 11101110 111101110 1110101 110100101 01010111 110111101 110100111 11111111 0100110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 564
Words 117
Sentences 17
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 107
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on April 07, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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James Harcrow

My wife Elisabeth does not do computers. The poems were written by her. The reviews are hers too. She is very much alive and writing poetry everyday. I do not write these poems I only enter them into the computer. . more…

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