Analysis of A Father less Son



The Fatherless Son

He walks alone on this earth
A man without a father's birth
His mother was drugged, he never knew
The face of the man who was his due

He grew up without a dad
His life was often sad
He wondered who he could have been
If only he knew his father's kin

He searched for answers high and low
But his father's name he could not know
He felt a hole deep in his soul
A void he couldn't make whole

But he never gave up on the quest
To find the man who'd given him his flesh
He hoped that one day he'd finally see
The face of the father he was meant to be

Until then, he lived his life
With strength and courage, without strife
He knew he was more than his past
And his father's absence couldn't last

For he was a man in his own right
A shining star in the darkest night
His mother's love had helped him grow
Into the man he was meant to know.


Scheme X AABB CCDD EEFF XXGG HHII JJEE
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 01001 1101111 01010101 110111101 011011111 1110101 111101 11011111 110111101 11110101 111011111 11011011 0111011 111011101 1101110111 1111111001 01101011111 0111111 11010011 11111111 011010101 111010111 010100101 11011111 010111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 858
Words 183
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 25

About this poem

About a man who grew up not knowing who his father is an his mother being drugged before he was born

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Written on April 26, 2023

Submitted by valar.anderson on April 27, 2023

Modified on May 02, 2023

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