Analysis of A child's thought of God
Denise Y Smith 1972 (Buffalo)
I know there's a God he lives way up in the sky.
I should be able to reach him with an airplane.... I can't! I wonder why.
He sees me but I can only see him when I die.
| Scheme | A A A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011111001 11110111111111101 1111111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 170 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
| Words per line (avg) | 13 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
About this poem
I wrote this precious poem cause this is how I thought of him when I was a child.
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Written on November 24, 1990
Submitted by denisesmithds02 on September 24, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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