In Your Eyes



You disguise with your eyes every pain and sorrow
I see sighs in your eyes waiting for tomorrow

You surmise with your eyes every hint and rumor
I see sleuth in your eyes tasking the exhumer

You chastise with your eyes every angst and tension
I see truth in your eyes spelling real intention

You reprise with your eyes every debt and claimant
I see routh in your eyes giving fair repayment

You surprise with your eyes every bit and measure
I see youth in your eyes sensing no displeasure

You uprise with your eyes every laud and tribute
I see couth in your eyes showing this attribute

You incise with your eyes every mix and montage
I see sooth in your eyes tooling sly camouflage

You disguise with your eyes every fact and fiction
I see lies in your eyes cloaking some infliction
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Submitted on January 13, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA BA CC DD BB EE FF CC
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 764
Words 144
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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