Analysis of Father
Most of my life you were defined by your love,
One of first eyes I saw, whom I thought the world of.
You kept me straight and narrow,
Taught me to shoot like an arrow.
You set the bar high,
Always watching me learn to fly.
You defined definition,
Taught me adaptive intuition.
You set and taught me to set limits,
Then taught me how to break them.
Taught me to aim for the stars
To choose and pick my own wars,
In order to touch the sky.
I truly learned how much you loved me,
When becoming a father happened to me.
Once again later in life you taught me again how to see.
Raising a child, no nobler quest,
Yet not an unchallenging test.
Especially to train one to always aim for the best.
Fathering moments continue in ways I’m impressed.
Your love and my love, we hold close to the chest.
Scheme | AABB CCDDXXXXC EEE FFFFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111001111 111111111011 1111010 11111110 11011 1101111 101010 11010010 110111110 1111111 1111101 1101111 0101101 110111111 10100101011 101100111101111 10011101 11111 010111111101 1001001001101 11011111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 803 |
Words | 178 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 9, 3, 5 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Spanning three generations…
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