Analysis of What Our Parents Taught Us

Steven Bowman 1997 (Voorhees Township, NJ)



Remembering when you were young,
When mommy and daddy taught you.
They'd teach you from rights to wrong,
Just how they taught us keeping truth.

Don't ever lie and steal, they'd teach us,
They'd keep us from unbelievable things.
You're loved by your parents, that's trust,
I hope that they will do the remembering.

What our parents taught us, never do bad,
Always do the good in life, you will get far?
Just don't react on the worse, just be glad,
You'll need them and they'll need you more.

What our parents have taught, may be good,
It may be all bad, neither overthink all worst.
When I knew myself, all needs are a should,
I need this to be glad, even if it'll all just hurts.


Scheme XXXX XXXX AXAX BXBX
Poetic Form
Metre 01001101 11001011 1111111 11111101 110101111 111101001 11111011 11111100100 11010111011 1101011111 1101101111 11101111 1101011111 1111110111 111111101 11111110110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 682
Words 145
Sentences 8
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 130
Words per stanza (avg) 32

About this poem

This poem is from 2015.

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Written on 2015

Submitted by stevenbowman319 on May 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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