Analysis of It's Worthwhile
It's easy alright to be pleasant while
Your life goes flowing by like happy song
But then the man worthwhile is one who'll smile
When everything goes so completely wrong.
It's feet of worried heart where troubles berth
That always come it seems with later years;
The smile that's worth the praises of the earth
Is one that always shines through pain and tears.
By cynic, sad, and fallen on the way
Who had no strength for all the toil and strife,
The highways of the world are filled today;
Make up the sum and substance of this life.
With virtue, sorrow, in a smile can hide;
We find this very seldom I confide.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE FF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111101 1111011101 1101111111 110110101 1111011101 111111101 0111010101 111111101 1101010101 1111110101 011011101 1101010111 1101000111 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 599 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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