Analysis of Anatomy Of The Word

Alan S Jeeves 1951 (Lancashire)



The hand that inks the essay,
The words of wisdom all that lay
Upon the page to rage and say
The things that bring such joy to me.

The eye that seeks and finds a way
To sob the story, come what may,
As thoughts and themes run wild, astray!
This eye will try to always see.

The heart that beats without delay
And rhymes the lines that dance and sway
And bound and sound as blithely they
Never, ever, silent be.

The mind that minds his words today
And savours them, for e'er to stay
Within his soul, then he may pray
His mind will see ~ mere words are we.


Scheme AAAB AAAB AAAB AAAB
Poetic Form
Metre 0111001 01110111 01011101 01111111 01110101 11010111 11011101 1111111 01110101 01011101 01011101 1010101 01111101 01111011 01111111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 538
Words 112
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 107
Words per stanza (avg) 28

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A 2021 poem in strict rhyme.

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Submitted by AlanSJeeves on July 04, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Alan S Jeeves

Alan S Jeeves is a Lancashire (England) born, Yorkshire based classical poet. more…

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