Analysis of Tooth Ache



Your sweetness makes my tooth ache, a pain from blob to glob.
Your sourness makes my heart break, a bane from throb to snob.

Your goodness makes my soul nest, a still from dawn to gone.
Your badness makes my core wrest, a chill from pawn to fawn.

Your cuteness makes my smile bright, a grin from dear to cheer.
Your drabness makes my stage fright, a spin from leer to sneer.

Your kindness makes my spark coil, a flash from pan to fan.
Your meanness makes my blood boil, a slash from can to ban.

Your smartness makes my mind wise, a soar from try to sky.
Your dimness makes my angst rise, a bore from cry to sigh.

Your warmness makes my love yearn, a glow from game to flame.
Your coldness makes my grit spurn, a blow from blame to shame.


Scheme AA BB CC DD EE FF
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 1101111011111 111111011111 1101111011111 1101111011111 1101111011111 111111011111 1101111011111 1101111011111 1101111011111 111111011111 111111011111 1101111011111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 726
Words 144
Sentences 12
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 48
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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