Analysis of When I was just a little boy!!!?



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
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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Jesudason Atputharajah

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