Analysis of Forever in Your Eyes Forev



I saw forever in her eyes.
In her whispered words, regret.
Only then did I realize
Her cheeks were lightly wet.

Her tears were not a disguise
For she paid her lover's debt.
I saw forever in your eyes,
In your whispered words, regret.


Scheme ABAB ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11010001 0010101 1011110 010101 0101001 1110101 11010011 0110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 240
Words 52
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 22

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Short and bitter sweet

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Written on May 22, 1984

Submitted by Mojavememory1987 on November 28, 2023

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