Analysis of 10 Times
10 times I saw you smile,
in your shy and beautiful way,
10 times my heart melted
in an ice-cream sort of way.
10 times I plucked up courage
to tell you how I feel,
10 times you turned and smiled
and my head began to reel.
10 times I said “I love you!”
from the bottom of my heart,
10 times you said, “me too,
right from the start”.
10 times I thought of asking
you to marry me,
and 10 times the tumbling butterflies they,
they prevented me.
But 10 times it’s been a year
of happiness and love,
and 10 times I’m convinced
you’re sent from above.
So, 10 times over again,
if time would decree,
10 times I’d defy the butterflies
and ask you to marry me!
Scheme | XAXA XBXB CDCD XEAE XFXF XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111 01101001 11110 0111111 111110 111111 11101 0110111 111111 1010111 11111 1101 111110 11101 010100101 10101 111101 110001 01101 11101 111001 11101 1101010 0111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 647 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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