Analysis of The child's secret

Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)



She was wild and she was free
And followed by her sweet doggie
While she ran across the edge
Her dog fell down from tiny ledge
And as the traffic passed them by
No ambulance but angel sigh
And for days on end the child had cried
The memory of it her secret hide
And in this den of sorrow so shy
She thought of her dog she had left to die
And ran so fast to apologise
With nought but tears in her eyes
To bring him back too our lives


Scheme AABBCCDDCCEEE
Poetic Form
Metre 1110111 01010110 1110101 01111101 01010111 11001101 011110111 0100110101 001111011 1110111111 011111 1111001 11111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 432
Words 92
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 341
Words per stanza (avg) 92
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Written on June 12, 2022

Submitted by HeatherLydiaThornhill on June 12, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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