Analysis of The Eyes Of A Child
Do you eat your own cooking,
do you live what you write
Do you enjoy your own company,
do you dream well at night
When you look in the mirror,
do you like what you see
Through the eyes of a child,
—is your heart then set free
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
| Scheme | XA BA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110 111111 110111100 111111 1110010 111111 101101 111111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 264 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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