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
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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Liam Ó Comáin

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