Analysis of Growing Up



An adorable little girl with Goldilocks hair
Red rosy cheeks and skin so fair.
Just a bit mischievous and slightly shy
you see the ocean in her sparkly blue eyes.
In her bedroom is where you find
her reading a book and broadening her mind.
As the younger years rapidly go by
she becomes too old for sleepy lullabies.
In comes the music out goes the toys
In comes the hormones and interest in boys.
The boys were cute and lots of fun
Now she's going to have her own little one.
The days of innocence are long gone
can't wish them back with a magic wand.
No longer that naive awkward little girl
as she enters the adult world.
So many choices she is going to make
to have a future for her and the baby's sake.
Strenth and determination is what she'll need
with support from her family i know she'll succeed.


Scheme AABCDDBCEEFFGHIJKKLL
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 101001011101 11010111 1011000101 11010001011 0011111 01001010001 1010110011 1011111010 010101101 010101001 01010111 11101101101 011100111 111110101 1101110101 11100011 11010111011 110101000101 1000101111 1011010011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 786
Words 154
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 637
Words per stanza (avg) 154
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on April 21, 2023

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