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 |
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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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