Analysis of Father



Most of my life you were defined by your love,
One of first eyes I saw, whom I thought the world of.
You kept me straight and narrow,
Taught me to shoot like an arrow.

You set the bar high,
Always watching me learn to fly.
You defined definition,
Taught me adaptive intuition.
You set and taught me to set limits,
Then taught me how to break them.
Taught me to aim for the stars
To choose and pick my own wars,
In order to touch the sky.

I truly learned how much you loved me,
When becoming a father happened to me.
Once again later in life you taught me again how to see.

Raising a child, no nobler quest,
Yet not an unchallenging test.
Especially to train one to always aim for the best.
Fathering moments continue in ways I’m impressed.
Your love and my love, we hold close to the chest.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 803
Words 178
Sentences 12
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 9, 3, 5
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 153
Words per stanza (avg) 39

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Written on April 14, 2024

Submitted by Arman_1 on April 14, 2024

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Arman Hoque

Founder of Empyrean Law and Senior Counsel, Arman Hoque holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Windsor in addition to a Master’s degree in Public Administration and a B.A. degree in Law and Society from the Ivy League Cornell University. In July 2004, he was called to the bar as barrister, solicitor, and notary public, following Articles with a prestigious Queen’s Counsel Firm. He worked in association with several prominent law firms and sage mentors to develop his high standard before establishing his own practice. Since then, he has grown his law firm. Focused on his compassion for access to justice, Mr. Hoque has received news attention for cases he has fought and won for his clients spanning 15 years of practice. He has contributed to precedents in the legal community and has been awarded numerous accolades recognizing his devotion to the law. For his clients, he uses his formidable cumulative knowledge and world-spanning experiences to effectively turn their real into as close to their ideal as legally possible. He has been a poet most his life, having self-published a volume in 1993 by honour of his patron father. more…

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