Analysis of One More Smile
Have I lived long enough,
have I said what I came to say
Is my spirit now to rest,
has the toll-way back been paid
Have I lived long enough,
being willful, righting wrongs
A last heartache twice forgiven
—one more smile before I’m gone
(St. David’s Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
| Scheme | Ax xx Ax xx x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 11111111 1110111 1011111 111101 101011 0111010 1110111 110010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 276 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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