Analysis of Growing up Newfie!
A Newfie Girl
Born and raised
Along the shore Line
I spent most of my days
Swimming with the jelly fish
Catching many a crab
Salt water I’ve swallied a bit
But yet I didn’t feel too bad
Floating around on driftwood
Stealing Mr. Laings Rowboat
No life jackets did we have
But somehow we managed to stay afloat
In the house we were’t allowed
Ate and out the door
Until your mother called your name
And you heard her, that’s for sure
Chores were a given
And you were sure never to delay
You’d be wary of a trimmin’
Back in the good old day
Elderly in community
You treated with respect
If you back sauced anyone
A lasing you would get
With so many mouths to feed
Home made bread was never in short supply
If that’s what you got for each meal that day
You’d never ask why
Church on Sunday
Whether you wanted to or not
It mattered none how you felt that day
Or if you’d cry and snot
Hard work and discipline
we were taught
And that your family is there for you
Whether you got along or not!
Julia Howell – Corner Brook, Newfoundland.
Scheme | XXAX XXXX XBXB XXXX CDAD XXCX XEDE DFDG CGXF X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011 101 01011 111111 1010101 101001 1101101 1111111 100111 101011 1110111 111101101 0011101 10101 01110111 0110111 10010 010110101 1110101 100111 10000100 110101 111110 01111 1110111 1111100101 1111111111 11011 111 10110111 110111111 111101 110100 101 0111001111 10110111 1010101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,013 |
Words | 201 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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