Analysis of She walked away



She walked away,

Not from my heart but from my hand,

She walked away,

Head held high, confident and grand,

She walked away,

Young and smart and brave,

She walked away,

My daughter whose love to save


Scheme A b A b A c A c
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 11111111 1101 11110001 1101 10101 1101 1101111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 191
Words 37
Sentences 1
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 19
Words per stanza (avg) 5

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My daughter

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Written on July 14, 2018

Submitted by mjgranger1 on June 09, 2021

Modified on March 23, 2023

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Montgomery J Granger

Husband, father, author/poet, retired educator, retired military. I live on Long Island, NY. Born in Illinois, raised in SoCal, with boyhood summers spent in the Midwest visiting relatives, playing baseball, going to ballgames and museums. College in Alabama, grad school in New York City where I met my wife. Professional certification on Long Island. Army medic and then Medical Service officer. After 9/11/2001 deployed to Gitmo and Iraq. Authored one book: Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior." 2010, Strategic Book Publishing. more…

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