Analysis of Somebody's Daughter
She is somebody's daughter
but now she belongs to the streets,
where she dances with the traffic
begging for kindness.
The headlights shine on her
illuminating her hollow face,
ragged body and torn dirty
clothes.
I look at her and wonder,
was she ever pretty,
did she ever wear a frilly dress
did she ever look her best.
I wonder if she ever had an
easy life, where she was loved and
cared for
perhaps somebody's wife?
Maybe her life was brutal from the start,
an un-wanted child from a broken home
neglected by her parents.
Maybe that's why she's an addict
Maybe she never had a chance
The only thing for certain is that
she is somebody's daughter
Scheme | Axxx axbx abxx xxxx xxx x x xA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 11101101 11101010 10110 01110 01000101 10100110 1 1110010 111010 111010101 1110101 110111011 10111110 11 01101 1001110101 1110110101 0101010 10111101 10110101 010111011 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 1, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
About this poem
I often see drug addicts in the street when I'm driving to work at night. One night I saw this woman and she made me think about my daughter who thankfully isn't an addict
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