Analysis of A Picture
They say a picture is worth a thousand words,
they say a picture is the truth untold to see, for all.
I say a picture can never capture what you mean to me,
for it only holds a portrait of a thought, for a moment,
within a thousand of your untold love stories,
as we live for so long, so far apart.
A picture can never say, or hear, or feel,
what you mean to me, as the smile only
says a moment was saved for just me.
A picture is not enough to say what God meant
the day He blessed me with the miracle of you,
within my womb, and my life, until He places us
again together, as intended from the beginning
of your life.
You are the miracle in the picture God intended
for me to see. Just for me, a picture, just for me!
A smile just for me!, A thought just for me!
You were made just for me!
Scheme | XXAXXX XAA XXXXX XAAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010110101 11010101011111 110101101011111 111010101011010 010101101110 1111111101 01011011111 1111110110 101011111 010110111111 011111010011 0111011011101 01010101010010 111 11010000101010 1111111010111 0111101111 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 803 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
About this poem
The Picture is poem which is a form of Imagery poetry yet Free Verse descriptive of what a Mother feels when looking at a picture of their child, irrespective of the child's age,
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Written on January 23, 2011
Submitted by pdrossmar on February 05, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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