Analysis of Smile



Smile by day
Yet cry by night
Marriage was supposed to be new
Sacred and pure,
A new beginning with you
Marriage pains & growth
Things began to renew.
Then a bomb hit
I wasn't able to handle it.
The new was tainted
Nothing was ever pure.
Infedelity from the start
A secret for many years.
My manhood crushed
Confidence withered,
Betrayed was what I felt.
Lies we were living
Truth never was clear
Tortured for years
Her mission accomplished
I walked the past years broken hearted.
Trying to forget, trying to regain.
Living with hate and resentment
Trying not to go insane
Trust was now gone
Tryin to live in contentment
Thinking was incessant
I look ahead to what's new
And hope one day we can be pure.
But for now
I smile by day
Yet cry by night.


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Poetic Form
Metre 111 1111 10101111 1001 0101011 1011 101101 1011 110101101 01110 101101 1101 0101101 111 10010 011111 11010 11011 1011 010010 110111010 1010110101 10110010 1011101 1111 1110010 101010 1101111 01111111 111 1111 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 726
Words 140
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 32
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 596
Words per stanza (avg) 140
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Submitted by joem.27940 on June 27, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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