Analysis of Boy without a father
Boy without a father
Mother saw her four-year-old from far off
Blue, white uniformed shirt plunged down the calf,
his hair obscure and unwashed
coming out of here and there, mocked
the soiled dark shorts.
His chubby tummy, tanned by the sun
both hands raised upward, in reckless run
with children on the playground, had such fun.
She saw with fright, where’s his shimmy?
not worn a panty; weather was so flimsy
had he eaten or not, or was he thirsty?
Just yesterday, father had taken him away
to threat, just to put his mother in dismay
to enslave her to his lusty
whims and fancies, morals just as gusty.
Mumma or pappa? This way or that?
Eyes determined, she clasped him to her gut.
Toying on the puny mind was which one?
mother hugged her boy tight like none.
Many years past, he wished her, Happy Father’s Day.
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Metre | 101010 1010111111 111011101 1101001 10111011 0111 110101101 111100101 110101111 11111110 11010101110 11101111110 11010110101 11111110001 10101110 1010101110 101101111 1010111101 1010101111 10101111 101111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 829 |
Words | 170 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 3, 3, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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About a boy who is caught in the conflict between his mother and father
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