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 |
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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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