Analysis of Hope of a child
Kailey Norris 2004 (North Carolina)
The mindset of hope and of a child are much alike,
as if true serenity and innocence are connected.
The comfort of a child in their mother's arms is what we long for inside ourselves,
a sense of safety and peace within our own body.
Treat every moment like you are still a child,
Cherish the most insignificant things in life.
Put that shiny rock in your pocket, it may be gold!
With thought, the smallest thing can bring peace and understanding to a life.
Every tiny aspect of nature is a beauty.
A child notices the simplest of things,
and those are what we need to take meaning in.
Not complicated beliefs or philosophies,
but details like the shade of the sky,
air bubbles in the creek,
or the shape of the fallen leaves.
Those are things we miss out on,
Too wrapped up in meaningless tasks.
A human is not meant to live, work, and die,
we are meant to find our own individual peace, purpose, and meaning in the world.
Find that comfort of knowing why we are here.
There are canyons in pebbles,
rivers in tree trunks,
veins in blowing leaves.
Everything has it's own purpose,
and the universe can only make sense in your own mind.
That meaning is different in every person.
Scheme | XXXA XBXBA XXXCXDXXCXX XXDXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101011101 111010001001010 010101011011111101001 01110010110110 110010111101 10010100101 1110101101111 1101011110010101 1001011101010 0110001011 01111111100 11000110100 101101101 110001 10110101 1111111 11101001 01011111101 111111010100110010001 11101101111 1110010 10011 10101 1011110 0010110110111 1101100010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,184 |
Words | 246 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 11, 6 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 232 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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