Analysis of Walk A little Plainer, Daddy
Christy Hollis 1960 (Texas)
Walk a little plainer, Daddy
Said a little boy so frail
I'm following in your footsteps
And I don't want to fail.
Sometimes your steps are very plain,
Sometimes they are hard to see
So walk a little plainer, Daddy
For you are leading me.
I know you that once you walked
This way many years ago,
And what you did along the way,
I'd really like to know
For sometimes when I am tempted
I don't know what to do
So walk a little plainer, Daddy
For I must follow you.
Someday when I'm grown up
You are like I want to be.
Then when I have a little boy...
Whom will want to follow me.
And I would want to lead him right,
And help him to be true.
So walk a little plainer, Daddy
For we must follow you.
By Christy Hollis
| Scheme | abcbdaAaefgfhiAijakaliAim |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
| Metre | 10101010 1010111 1100011 011111 01111101 0111111 110101010 111101 1111111 1110101 01110101 110111 10111110 111111 110101010 111101 11111 1111111 11110101 1111101 01111111 011111 110101010 111101 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 733 |
| Words | 145 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 25 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 544 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 145 |
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