Analysis of The Eyes Have It (Revision 2)



Your eyes have signaled a defeat,
despite your words -- weak trials
to set a victory scene complete
with lies, sneers, and bogus smiles --
all hope, all truth, finally fled;
a game unstoppable once started.

What‘s left is but a love now dead,
sad stories since we met and parted.
All lives contain elemental stuff--
romance, drama, and cartoons.
Let's have --we suffer through enough--
no crying clowns, no blue balloons.

But ah! The hurt within those eyes --
that dam the tears your speech denies!


Scheme AXAXBC BCDEDE FF
Poetic Form
Metre 11110001 0111110 110100101 1110101 11111001 010100110 01110111 110111010 11010101 0110001 11110101 11011101 11010111 11011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 487
Words 87
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 127
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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L. Larry Amadore

A word lover who enjoys beautiful poetry of all genres and responds with admiration to fresh and felicitous phrases. [Retired manufacturing/production control mgr./marketing manager/financial analyst. USAF veteran; lived in US, Mexico, Germany, Turkey.] more…

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