Analysis of Child
Roland VanTassel 1954 (United States)
Child is something warm to hold
Child is something more often than not you have to scold
Child is happiness
Child is tears
Child is someone who needs you to calm its fears
Child is play
Child is someone who will grow and someday go away.
| Scheme | A A X X X B B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110111 1110110111111 11100 111 1111111111 111 11111101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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