Analysis of Mother May I

Chineka Arnold 1984 (Dallas)



Sometimes I Wanna See,
And, Sometimes I Don't Wanna See.
I Believe That If I Seek What I See,
I Have A Feeling It Won't Be Seen!
So, Mother May I?
I Wanna Seek What It Means...


Scheme AAABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 011101 00111101 1011111111 110101111 11011 1101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 179
Words 42
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 128
Words per stanza (avg) 37

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I Seen and I Sought

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Written on May 05, 2022

Submitted by AgnesMae on May 25, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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