Analysis of Grandpa's Legacy
Robert Rowe 1967 (Agana, Guam)
When I was a child little more than three
My grandpa would set me upon his knee
And tell me stories of the world he saw
While wide eyed I’d listen, mind filled with awe.
His heroes were larger than life he knew
But he swore that all his stories were true.
My innocent mind accepted his word
Though his tales would sometimes be so absurd.
I soon grew too big to sit on his knee
Yet his tales never stopped int’resting me
He roams heaven now with his fairy tale crew
His yarn-spinning days are long gone and through.
Yet his tales live on ‘cause I’ll ne’er forget
Days of sitting on his lap, you can bet.
Or most of all, the sparkle in his eye
From my laughing so hard that I would cry.
I pray that someday, when I’m eighty-three
My grandchild will sit there upon my knee
While I tell stories of the world I saw
And wide-eyed he’ll listen, mind filled with awe.
Scheme | AABCDDEEAADDFFGGAABC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1110110111 111110111 0111010111 1111101111 1100101111 1111111001 1100101011 1111011101 1111111111 11110111 11101111011 1110111101 1111111101 1110111111 1111010011 1110111111 111111101 111110111 1111010111 0111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 873 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 670 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 168 |
About this poem
This poem was inspired by not just my own grandfather but also by a painting I once saw of a boy sitting on his grandfather's lap laughing. I cannot find that painting anywhere, but it is still etched into my mind. It is one of the few poems I have had published.
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