Analysis of God's Children
God's Children 1953 (New York)
When children are born
We love them forever
Sometimes we scorn
To protect us from whatever
To see them smile
Is something you treasure
Hoping they will be here for a while
To give us some pleasure
When their life is taken away
You wonder why
You sit down and pray
And all you can do is cry
They are now our angels
Looking down on us to say
They remember me today
Because my family came here to pray
| Scheme | ABAB CBCB DEDE XDDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 11011 111010 0111 1011110 1111 110110 101111101 111110 11111001 1101 11101 0111111 1111010 1011111 1010101 0111001111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 418 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem to help people who loose a child.
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