Analysis of Disposable Children
David Normand 1958 (Sacramento, Ca)
He came to us the newly adopted laughing boy,
A joy to the kids and babies at our daycare.
The laughing boy went home to loving arms at end of day.
A mama’s joy.
As days went by the laughing slowed.
A little boy misses his baby brother, another foster child,
Another home.
Mama’s joy unites them at last.
The two adopted laughing boys.
The laughing boys played hard.
Their love was shared.
But boys come home at night, to a quiet house,
And loudly played and played…
And mama’s joy turned angry. Quiet time is what she craved.
Parent’s get tired from work.
Stresses build and
Become unbearable.
Call the agency, contracts broken
We can’t handle this, we can’t handle two, loud, noisy boys.
The agency arrives and tells the boys.
Little boys go where they are told
They never make friends, they are bought and sold
Passed around and loved from home to home,
To grow into the realm of the crowded and alone.
August 29, 2006
Scheme | AXXA XXBXC XXXX XXXXXC CDDBX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010010101 011010101101 01011111011111 0101 11110101 01011011010010101 0101 10101111 01010101 010111 1111 11111110101 010101 01011101011111 1011011 1010 010100 10100110 11101111011101 0100010101 10111111 1101111101 101011111 1101011010001 10 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 940 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4, 6, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
This was a story I heard from my mother's day care. The first boy was a joy to see play. A very pleasant kid.
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