Analysis of Children In The Form Of Fire
Hareysha Sankar 2005 (Seremban)
Children are like fire.
When they are young you,
think you can control them;
mold them into anything you want.
But as they grow bigger,
you begin to loose control.
Sometimes they can hurt you.
They aspire to take on the world.
Set the world up in flames;
But alas,
your words can act as an extinguisher;
You can kill their dreams,
as well as the child with it.
Then they turn blue.
They burn with anger,
pain,
sadness,
resentment.
Maybe even depression.
And sometimes,
they extinguish themselves
from the earth permanently.
those who do hold on
Just long enough to grab a piece of wood,
paper,
anything they can set a flame to.
And they will burn again;
Maybe even brighter than before.
Destroying everything
that gets in their way.
As they grow old,
They begin to fade away;
As time waits for no one.
With one more small gust of smoke,
They fade into the air;
becoming nothing more
than a memory to those who had witnessed them;
Leaving their mark behind them
as proof of their existence.
Fire is like children,
beautiful;
Until you lose control,
Then it will burn you to the ground.
Scheme | ABCX ADBXX XAXXB AXXXE XXXXXABXFXG XGEXXFCCX EXDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110 11111 111011 11011011 111110 1011101 011111 10111101 101101 101 1111110100 11111 1110111 1111 11110 1 10 010 1010010 001 101001 1011000 11111 1101110111 10 10111011 011101 101010101 01010 11011 1111 1011101 111111 1111111 110101 010101 101001111101 1011011 1111010 101110 100 011101 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,117 |
Words | 241 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 5, 5, 11, 9, 4 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
I wrote this peom because i never understood why parents think that if they are strict with their kids, they would be more dicipline. I think its the opposite. I think that the longer you control them, the bigger the explosion.
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Written on August 07, 2022
Submitted by Hareyshasankar on August 07, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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