Analysis of The Gift
His sleeping is of silence and innocents.
Her Awareness is of small insect creatures.
His cry is of annoyance and help!
Her eyes are of fear and the tears are from the heavens, Then love shall come from the mother's womb.
By Jacqueline Landis-Hines
| Scheme | XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011100100 0010111110 111101001 0111100111010111110101 1100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 259 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
This poem is about the births of my 4 beautiful children!
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