Analysis of 10 foot tall”
Deborah "Turtledove" Caporale 1964 (sacramento)
“When I was young, I knew it all,
I lived like I was 10 feet tall,
No one could ever tell me how
If I knew then what I know now
I’d shut my mouth and use my ears
Instead, I wasted many years
When your young, what you don’t know
Is just how fast your life will go
Never let regrets outweigh
Good memories to be made each day
It’s not too late to work things out
Isn’t that what love’s about?
More regrets we need not make
Life’s too short for Heaven’s sake
My last wish, to see my kids
Regret no more the wrong I did
For if they harbor hate for me
I fear their souls shall not be free
I now live like I’m 5 feet tall
I know much more yet still not all
One last thing I want to learn
Before I rest within my urn
Is how to let my kids all know
How much I’ve always loved them so”
Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE FF GG XX HH AA II DD |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 11111111 1111111 11110111 11111111 11110111 01110101 1111111 11111111 101011 110011111 11111111 111101 1011111 1111101 1111111 01110111 11110111 11111111 1111111 11111111 1111111 01110111 11111111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 822 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on February 22, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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