Analysis of What Your Smile Does
Your smile is my guide
In this haunted forest,
And when you smile,
All the ghouls float away
Like clouds of cotton candy.
Your smile is my hope
That sends me aflutter
And when you smile
My stomach feels like it's full of demented butterflies.
Your smile is my comfort
In a world without hope,
And when you smile
Anything feels possible.
Your smile is the deep ocean,
That calms me with gentle waves
And when you smile
It's like watching the sun set on the water.
But in a life full of it, you will never know,
And you'll never know
I feel like I'm floating
When you say hi to me.
You'll never know
That you mean the world to me.
You'll never know.
| Scheme | xxAxb cdAx xcAx xxAd eexbEbE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 011010 0111 101101 1111010 11111 111010 0111 1101111101010 111110 001011 0111 101100 1110110 1111101 0111 11100111010 100111111101 01101 111110 111111 1101 1110111 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 624 |
| Words | 126 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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