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
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Written on March 15, 2010
Submitted by garzalance2 on June 28, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 400 |
Words | 102 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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