Analysis of WORDSMITH

JP. 1948 (United Kingdom)



WORDSMITH
Thoughts rain down on a barren page
Maybe of love or abject rage
A minute of life each word has bought
Each line a sentence or space a thought
A true-life quirk to buy a smile
The complex verse an unwound coil          
Words so sad they make you cry
A solicitous rhyme to bring a sigh
Wrote from the heart but not the soul
A truth to tell yet not the whole
Smell sweet corn on a summer day
See the image words portray
Feel the cold of blizzard snow
The latent heat of a fire’s glow
A feeling time a place or tort
Though set in verse provoke a thought
A will to write the words to read
For anyone their eyes to feed
They are but words on any line
To stir a thought of long past time
In mind a memory always there
An unused thought that’s going spare
Unlock a mind with this literal key
Yet never know that this was me
JP.


Scheme ABBCDEFGGHHIIJJKDLMNOPPQQR
Poetic Form
Metre 1 11110101 10111101 010111111 110101101 01111101 01011011 1111111 0010011101 11011101 01111101 11110101 1010101 1011101 010110101 01010111 11010101 01110111 1101111 11111101 11011111 01010011 10111101 0101111001 11011111 1
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 812
Words 168
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 26
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 650
Words per stanza (avg) 168
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