Analysis of To My Children
For a period
Please reflect
Or meditate upon
Where you are now
If a building
Upon its design
And structure
In fact what
You see indicates
A designer and
A builder
Yet there are those
Amongst us who deny
The need for a
Designer or a builder
For that which is well
Beyond human
Capability that is
Ourselves and the world
By their line of thought
We are the product of
'Nothing' and if evolution
Finally becomes confirmed
By science it’s a reality of
Nature which nothing
Created
Yes please reflect if you have
The time upon the latter
And in due course please
Let me know the make of
Watch that mother found
As the tide ebbed and flowed
Scheme | AXXX BXCXXXC XXXCXDXX XEDXEBA XCXEXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10100 101 11001 1111 1010 01101 010 011 1110 00100 010 1111 011101 0110 0101010 11111 0110 010011 001001 11111 110101 1001010 1000101 11010101 10110 010 1101111 0101010 00111 111011 11101 1011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 7, 8, 7, 6 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on February 23, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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