Analysis of A Father to His Son



Watch your ways my son
 Be careful not to fall
 Listen to your heart
 Only you can hear it call

Now, I'm not always right
 But I'll never steer you wrong
 And those going to hell
 Will want to bring you along

But listen to me boy
 And listen to me clear
 There's nothing in this world
 That you should ever fear

For fear leads men to hate
 And hate leads men to kill
 Because when evil gets a taste
 It will never have its fill

Now this one thing I know
 There are many nets to cast
 But in this wicked world
 Love is all we have

So give more than you take
 And take only what you need
 You will starve your appetite
 If you feed it with your greed

And don't judge what is broken
 My son, you are broken too
 You see, lives are all just pieces
 Find the ones that fit in you


Scheme ABXB CDXD XEFE XGXG XXFX XHCH AIXI
Poetic Form Quatrain  (86%)
Metre 11111 110111 10111 1011111 11111 1110111 011011 1111101 110111 010111 110011 111101 111111 011111 01110101 1110111 111111 1110111 101101 11111 111111 0110111 111110 1111111 0111110 1111101 11111110 1011101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 753
Words 158
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 84
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on October 31, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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