Analysis of Why
A child is living with a family
and wonders how long she will stay.
Will it be a week or a month
before she’s pulled away?
She wonders what it would
be like to have a family.
Soon she’s in an orphanage,
waiting and hoping for a family.
Couples come and go and she stays.
They all want babies, NOT
older children.
She cries herself to sleep at
at night and wonders why?
Isn’t she good enough,
is something wrong with her?
All she wants is a family,
a place to stay where she is loved.
One day she leaves and goes
to another family, this time for a
few weeks.
It goes on and on, and she wonders
if the next family will be permanent.
She goes through life, feeling
unwanted, unloved, never belonging.
Scheme | ABXBXAXAXXXXXXX AXXXXXXCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010100 01011111 11101101 011101 110111 11110100 1101100 1001010100 10101011 111101 1010 1101111 110101 11101 110110 11110100 01111111 111101 10101001110 11 111010110 10110011100 111110 0100110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 683 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 9 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 270 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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