Analysis of Your Eyes Still Closed
You left me fifty years ago
but I still write to you today
Feeling those things that never age
as my thoughts have turned to gray
You walked out never looking back
and left me standing there
My heart in pieces, the future gone
with no one left to care
New days have come, old days have gone
the seasons change and weave
But in every memory I see your face
—your eyes still closed to me
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
| Scheme | XA XA XB CB CX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101 11111101 10111101 1111111 11110101 011101 110100101 111111 11111111 010101 101001001111 111111 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 425 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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