Analysis of Our Children



Our children are a gift we give to you,
we teach them life with our views.
So be mindful of what you do and say,
as they will continue in the same way.

Show them love and you will find
they will go out and be more kind.
Teach them tolerance and you’ll see
they’ll treat each other equally.

Our children will be our legacy
we leave behind for all to see.
Raise them up so that they can see
there is nothing they can’t be.


Scheme XXAA BBCC CCCC
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 10101011111 11111101 1110111101 1110100011 1110111 11110111 11100011 11110100 10101110100 11011111 11111111 1110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 415
Words 86
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 108
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted by Janis Binning on June 28, 2018

Modified on April 21, 2023

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