Analysis of Your slice of happiness (inspirational)
Is your
imagination provocative, or wild?
Do you try to hit the ball but wonder how
everything got fouled?
Do you sometimes feel out of touch,
or out of place?
Are you in dreamland again,
floating outer space?
When I look around this world
sometimes this is how I feel.
Cutting off an arm or a leg just
to break even with bills.
Some of life's pleasures are not
even pleasurable anymore.
In a hotel room with a policeman knocking
at your door.
You give all that you can,
but everyone still wants plenty more.
Just ask your uncle Sam.
While I watch your mouth drop down to the floor.
Everyone demands their piece of the pie.
But never give everything to everyone
without first cutting yourself a slice.
It just may be the sweetest...
Scheme | ABCDEFGFHIJKLAMANAOAPQRJ |
---|---|
Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 0010010011 11111011101 1011 11011111 1111 110101 10101 1110111 0111111 101111011 111011 1111011 10100001 000111001010 111 111111 11011101 111101 1111111101 100111101 110110110 011100101 1111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 709 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 577 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Font size:
Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
- 40 sec read
- 8 Views
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Your slice of happiness (inspirational)" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 12 Jun 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/92237/your-slice-of-happiness-%28inspirational%29>.
Discuss this Charles Johnson poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In