Analysis of To Daddy:



Daddy, we miss you
Why did you go?
Did you leave
‘Cause we did something wrong?

Did we yell too much?
Or not go to bed?
Or brushing our teeth
Took too long?

We’re little and scared,
We thought that you cared,
Don’t you love us?
We don’t understand.

Mommy cries too,
We don’t know what to do,
Except hug her
And try holding her hand.

You have a new home,
Wasn’t ours good enough?
Without you here
Feels so wrong.

We try to be happy,
But we’re angry and sad,
You’ve been gone
For far too long.

We know we’re not perfect,
We thought that you were,
We thought we’d be
Always protected.

Instead, you’ve found two,
More important to you,
Spend your time with
And we’ve been rejected.

Do they make you happy?
And do what they’re told?
We’ll never know
What we did.

Leaving your children,
The way that you have,
Is too much for
Two little kids.

The days that we miss you,
Fail to compare,
With the damage
We’ll live with forever.

Knowing we grew,
Without a father we knew,
How could your arrangement
Be better?

Ohana means family,
No one left behind,
But that must not
Mean much to you.

So go on and leave us,
It’s really ok,
It must be something
That you’ve got to do.

We’ll stay with Mommy,
‘Cause, she needs us more,
Although you may
Not agree.

But we are a family,
That’s broken and torn,
With a Dad
Who is happier free.


Scheme ABXC XXXC DDEF AAGF XXXC HIXC XGHX AAXJ HXBJ XXKX AXXG AAXG HXXA ELXA HKLH HXIH
Poetic Form
Metre 10111 1111 111 111101 11111 11111 110101 111 01001 11111 1111 1101 1011 111111 0110 011001 11011 110101 0111 111 111110 101001 111 1111 110101 11110 1111 1010 01111 101011 1111 011010 111110 01111 1101 111 10110 01111 1111 1101 011111 1101 1010 111010 1011 0101011 111010 110 11100 11101 1111 1111 111011 11011 11110 11111 11110 11111 111 101 1110100 11001 101 111001
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 1,371
Words 316
Sentences 23
Stanzas 16
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 64
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 62
Words per stanza (avg) 16

About this poem

Divorce through the eyes of children.

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Written on February 08, 2009

Submitted by kcookcollins on March 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:34 min read
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Karin Collins

Karin Collins is an American poet and educator whose works include: Earth Song, Innocence Lost, and Misunderstanding. She lives in Akron, Ohio, with her two daughters and their dog, Sailor. more…

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