Analysis of Childhood Missed
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
We all wished when children,
To become adults.
When adults,
Our childhood is missed to wish...
Time that has passed too fast and quickly,
Children again to want and wish.
With our childishness not to rush.
So children we act to pretend,
Adults we had never been.
And some of us?
Some of us have stayed that way.
Refusing to grow up.
Throwing tantrums.
Wanting those tantrums we throw,
Forgiven by adults.
Adults...
Who we still can not show,
Anything we knew to know...
About respect to learn what that is.
To give that lesson to teach it to children!
You know...
The ones who today,
Are undisciplined, disrespectful and rude!
| Scheme | ABBCDCEFGHIJKLBBLLMALIN |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110 10101 101 1011111 111111010 10011101 1101111 11011101 0111101 0111 1111111 010111 1010 1011011 010101 01 111111 101111 010111111 11110111110 11 01101 1010001001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 605 |
| Words | 111 |
| Sentences | 16 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 23 |
| Lines Amount | 23 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 484 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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