Analysis of Being Her Dad

Michael Kroll 1961 (New Jersey)



                               Being Her Dad

You think you know love,
but you really don't.
You say you’ll never leave her,
and in your heart you won’t.

She touched you like no other,
like no one else will do.
She had you when first you met,
before you knew it, she was two.

You hold her hand and watch her grow,
and when apart, you just want more.
You brush her hair, you, watch her sleep,
you turn around, and now she’s four.

You go to the park, she holds your hand,
nothing else matters, she makes you alive.
You read her books and rough around,
look at the calendar, she just turned five.

I look to the clouds and I thank heaven,
my little girl is beautiful and seven.
When we’re apart I still get sad,
but nothing’s better then Being her dad!


Scheme A XBCB CDXD XEXE XFXF GGAA
Poetic Form
Metre 1001 11111 11101 1111010 001111 1111110 111111 1111111 01111111 11010101 01011111 11011101 11010111 111011111 1011011101 11010101 1101001111 1110101110 11011100010 10011111 1101011001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 765
Words 165
Sentences 11
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 24

About this poem

Simply it was inspired by being my daughters dad!!

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Written on May 05, 2003

Submitted by michaelm.77094 on December 01, 2023

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