Analysis of Let you down
I'm sorry that I let you down,
that I was just too meh to have met your crown.
Absent in time I never knew you enough,
and so far from home mum couldn't ruin your bluff.
Travelling roads that would last a while,
the school bell tolls and I'm last to smile.
A child minder I'd go to for the rest of the night,
my friends greet their parents, I'm upset but alright.
You were there to twelve as the fatherly head,
But from there on out, you were practically dead.
Growing pains harsh taken out on a mother,
who'd had two horrible men who gouged with a smother.
I was a third because of the pain I was in,
with no strong male figure to help me abstain from the sin.
Our relationship was strained and a hit or a miss.
Stiff with fear when I stopped you slitting your wrist.
The surrealist time in my life, I tried to have helped.
While dad had affairs we cried and we welped.
But time did pass and so did the strain.
This is just a rumination and an ode to the pain.
For I'm a dad now and nothing compares.
If there's nothing else I do I'll make sure suffering is spared.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHIJDKKLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 11111111111 10011101101 011111101011 100111101 011101111 0110111101101 11111010111 10111101001 11111101001 10111011010 1111001111010 110101101110 11111011101101 1001011001101 11111111011 01101111111 1110111011 111101101 1110010011101 1101101001 111011111110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,067 |
Words | 233 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 821 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 212 |
About this poem
A dad leaving his boy, and that boy going on to become a father too.
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Written on November 20, 2022
Submitted by Sheggiee on November 20, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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