Analysis of When I was just a little boy!!!?
Jesudason Atputharajah 1937 (Jaffna)
When I was just a little boy,
I never had any worries,
I did everything with a sense of joy,
I never regretted for any of my follies;
I climbed on a mango tree,
And later, I found a snake,
Curled round its bottom,
In a sudden shock, I jumped from the tree,
I was scared but did not,
Stay in a frenzy mood;
A strong sense of fearlessness,
Remained in my younger days,
When I found the world in a joyous mood.!!.
Scheme | ABABCDECFGBHG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 11011010 111010111 1100101101110 1110101 0101101 11110 0010111101 111111 100101 01111 0101101 1110100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 399 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 310 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
About this poem
The writer muses about his childhood days in a self-revealing poem. It was written in 2005.
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Written on October 20, 2005
Submitted by jesudason_a on August 13, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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