Analysis of Harvey Franklin Hulse - August 10, 1931 – April 15, 2003
My dad was not perfect.
He never claimed to be.
But he always believed in me.
My dad was not a rich man.
He was always building something;
A fun thing that gave me countless hours of play.
My dad liked a simple life.
He sat by me, on the shores of Lake Kenosha.
We fished for hours, just us two.
My dad loved country music.
He played his records and strummed his guitar.
He taught me to play songs I hated, as a fellow Yankee I never related.
My dad was not perfect in speech.
He ate skeddie, grinders, hotdawgs and bitza.
Together we shucked clams for frying.
My dad was wrong in many ways, what you might call uncouth.
Right or wrong he told you what he thought.
I cannot lie there were times he made me cry.
The longer he is gone, the more I realize.
He was a very big man in this little girl's eyes.
Happy Birthday Daddy, I miss you still.
Scheme | XAA XBX XXX XXX XCB XXX CCX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 110111 1110101 1111011 1111010 011111101011 1110101 111110111010 11110111 1111010 1110101101 111111110101010110010 11110101 11110101 010111110 11110101111111 111111111 11011011111 01011101110 1101011011011 101101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 837 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on September 29, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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