Analysis of Here's to the Children Who Don't Quite Fit
Here’s to the Children Who Don’t Quite Fit ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
August 24, 2021
Here’s to the children who don’t quite fit
Who run around aimlessly when all the others sit
Who look at the world through eyes unique
And into their souls you’d love to peek
To see just what magic makes them tick
When they look at a tree and call it a stick
Here’s to the teens who will not abide
By life’s set rules that they push aside
As they rock back and forth in their own special world While grown-ups grow frustrated with lips tightly curled Then bursts of brilliance they reveal as they race
While tears of love roll down a parent’s face Expectations often missed but still they yearn Wondering today what skills they will learn
We hope for the ones who don’t quite fit the mold
That the world will be kind as they grow old
We know that the bullies will play their cruel game Reality is, cruelty sometimes brings shame
But optimism lives in each heart and mind
Of parents and professionals who continue to be kind With a network of supporters shining bright as the sun The ones who don’t quite fit have already won
Nobody knows the future
So why pretend?
Let’s celebrate their victories!
May they never end!!!
Scheme | Axx Aabbccddxxeexxxxfxf |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101111 101011 10 110101111 1101100110101 111011101 001111111 111110111 11110101101 110111101 111111101 1111010111011111101110111110101111 111111010101010111111000111111 11101111101 1011111111 111010111101101100111 1100101101 110001001010111101101010110101111110101 11010 1101 1101100 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,204 |
Words | 223 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 19 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 478 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
About this poem
A celebration of children who don't quit fit the expected mold.
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Written on August 24, 2021
Submitted on August 24, 2021
Modified by Poetry643 on August 24, 2021
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