Analysis of A Child's Farewell
Thijis Nicolaas Truex Jorgensen
February 22, 2005 - April 11, 2005
Sorry mommy, daddy, I didn't get to stay.
To laugh cry run and play.
I’ll always be there by your side.
I'm sorry that I had to die.
God sent me down to be with you,
to make your loving hearts anew.
To help you look up and see
Both God and little ole me.
Mommy, Daddy, I wish I could stay.
Just like I heard you and daddy pray.
But, all the angels they did cry
when they told lil ole me to say goodbye.
God didn't take me cause He's mad.
He didn't send me to make you sad.
But to give us three a chance to be
a love so precious .. don't you see?
Up here with Jesus, no trouble do I see
and all the pretty angels, they sing to me.
The streets made of gold is where I play
I know you'll both come here too, someday.
Until the day you both join me here,
I will love you and daddy dear.
Each passing breeze you feel and see,
Will be love and kiss’s from lil ole me.
With love Boom Boom
10/04/2005 Gerardus N. Vriend
Scheme | XX AAXB CCDD AABB EEDD DDAA XXDD X A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100 10010 101010110111 111101 1111111 11011111 11111111 11110101 1111101 1101011 101011111 111110101 11010111 111111111 11011111 110111111 111110111 01110111 11110110111 01010101111 011111111 11111111 010111111 11110101 11011101 111011111 1111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 962 |
Words | 202 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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