Analysis of How?
How did it happen? When did she grow?
How did I miss it? I’ll never know.
Now she’s in college. Now at her job.
What happened to toys, those thing-a-ma-bobs?
She used to play dollies, Barbie and Ken.
She used to play tea-time now and again.
Now she’s a mommy. Now she’s full grown.
No longer here, now she’s out on her own.
How did it happen? When did she grow?
How did I miss it? I’ll never know.
©Criss F. Rosenlof 8/30/2013
-I was thinking about my grandsons, and inspiration struck.
| Scheme | AA xx bbccAA xx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101111 111111101 110101101 1101111011 111111001 1111111001 110101111 1101111101 111101111 111111101 111 1110011100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 494 |
| Words | 91 |
| Sentences | 18 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 6, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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