Analysis of that girl
You hand out virtues in individually wrapped packets
multicolored and sanitized for public consumption
Handshake chasers clothed in silken jackets
Your charity is a mix of silver wrapping and presumption
How beautiful is your dance as one foot speaks and the other answers
with your purse packed with lipstick and platitudes
friends like understudies ,on-call rehearsed dancers
you entertain, determined to decorate their placid moods
Satisfied with each reflection you gleefully embrace
Never growing tired of the skin in which adorns you
Pity for others is a mantle you seem to always misplace
your benevolent gift for the many who seem so worn through
You speak of humility like a new sweater to wear
this years fashion, designed with you in mind
whistling a tune you so generously share
with the subjacent folk, the less fortunate kind
Your smile glides across room as you clutch your novelette
Well chosen to showcase the wisdom which you purchase
with speech so grand from your pre-studied alphabet
A soothing sound given to others by your largess
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH HIXI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110001000110 010010110010 110101010 1100101110100010 11001111111001010 111111010 111110110 1010101101101 1011010110001 10101010101011 101101010111101 101001101011111 11101001011011 1110011101 10011110001 1011011001 11101111111 110110101110 11111111010 0101101101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,078 |
Words | 194 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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