Analysis of Know How I Look
Know how I look.
The autumn hues of
_____red and gold within my beard.
The strands of silver moonbeams overtaking the
_____earthen brown of my hair.
The deep canyons cut from a lifetime of
_____flowing rivers across my brow.
The twinkle in my gaze as I look upon your smile, like
_____cosmic diamonds in the desert night sky.
Know how I look.
For it may be the last look upon
_____Father Time's hourglass.
See the sting of salt in my eyes like the copious flow from
_____the onion's burn.
So shall I see you, in
_____every mirror,
_____every pane,
_____every cloud.
And someday we shall spin on Mother Earth's axis
_____alone,
_____together,
_____everlasting.
Scheme | Abxxcbxxx Adxxxxxxxxdca |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 01011 1010111 0111011000 11111 011011011 1100111 01001111101111 110001011 1111 111101101 1110 101110111010011 111 111110 110 11 11 01111110110 1 1 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 13 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 264 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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