Analysis of LITTLE BOY
You let me be a little boy,
You let me think I was a man
A little boy closed his heart from the fear of a man,
As I thought I was a man, I kept my heart closed for the fear of a little boy
You let me keep my heart closed to protect me
You let me open my heart to see there is no fear
Without the fear, I remember what it was to be a little boy
Without the fear, I know what it is to be a man
| Scheme | AB BA XX AB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101 11111101 0101111101101 11111011111110110101 11111111011 1111011111111 01011010111110101 0101111111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 400 |
| Words | 102 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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