Analysis of The Cry Of A Girl Child
Not all lessons are taught by anybody
Some are taught by teachers
Teachers specialized in their sphere
Others are taught by experience
It be the best teacher
Parents are teachers experienced
Not all subjects can they teach.
Never did I know I carried a sweet
Nobody told me a sweet can bear too.
Yet a hard way I learned.
My body reacted to nature
My behind swelled somehow
Two melons appeared on my chest
They turned to be my tormentors.
Shoulders turned at my pass
I heard whistles!
Confussion erupted all round.
Some felt to touch me
Was I A doll or puppy?
It is the brushing on me I detested
I started seeing the monthly visitor
Yet somebody taught me a lesson
My sweet wasn't only for the loo
He taught me pleasure!
He taught me childbirth.
How I wish it was not this man.
He taught me my monthly visitor can abscond.
I was in the family way.
With non but my granddad!
You have a candy
Nobody wants to eat
To spoil is their intend
Once in the family way
You will be discarded like used tissue
Beware of relatives
Not all treat you like a child and relative.
| Scheme | A B X X C X X D E X C X X B X X X A A X C X E C X X X F A A D X F E X X |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101111000 111110 1010011 101110100 110110 101100100 1110111 1011111001 11101111 101111 110010110 10111 11001111 1111110 101111 1110 11011 11111 1101110 11010111010 11010010100 11011010 111010101 11110 1111 11111111 111110100101 11001001 11111 11010 1111 111101 1001001 111010111 011100 11111010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,056 |
| Words | 208 |
| Sentences | 16 |
| Stanzas | 36 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 36 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 24 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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This is a lesson all girls should learn. Learn from this poem but not from experience.
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