Analysis of Help Me Daddy
HELP ME DADDY
Daddy please say you’ll help me grow
For I will learn from what you know
Sharing all your wisdom sound and true
Daddy I’ll grow by watching you
Beau was the gift God gave to us
To fill our lives with joy and love
A child so sweet so innocent
A baby girl I know heaven sent
Daddy please say you’ll help me grow
For I will learn from what you know
Sharing all your wisdom sound and true
Daddy I’ll grow by watching you
I’d hold her close in both my arms
To keep her safe and free from harm
And as she looked in to my eyes
I swore she heard what I said inside
Beau you’ll grow and make me proud
You’ll stand head tall in the largest crowd
The time will come I must set you free
Unlock life’s door for you’ll have the key
As years passed by our baby grew
And old ways changed into something new
She learned to walk and talk with me
And started asking how her life should be
Daddy please say you’ll help me grow
For I will learn from what you know
Sharing all your wisdom sound and true
Daddy I’ll grow by watching you
I held back tears as I tried to say
You’ll have children of your own someday
Giving all your love to another man
Then I know you will understand
The big day came for our little girl
To leave our home for another world
As we walked the aisle on her wedding day
Through tears of love I could hear her say
Daddy you have taught me well
You picked me up only when I fell
You gave all your wisdom sound and true
And daddy I’ll never stop loving you
Scheme | a BBCC xxxx BBCC xxxx ddaa ccaa BBCC eexx xxee ffcc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 10111111 11111111 101110101 10111101 11011111 111011101 01111100 010111101 10111111 11111111 101110101 10111101 11010111 11010111 01110111 111111101 1110111 111100101 011111111 011111101 111110101 011101101 11110111 0101010111 10111111 11111111 101110101 10111101 111111111 11101111 1011110101 1111101 0111110101 1110110101 1110110101 111111101 1011111 111110111 111110101 0101101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,508 |
Words | 312 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem for my daughter Isabeau back in 1996. She was born in Cebu, Philippines and lived there with her mother until 2018 when she mover here to be with me. She is the light in my life and so glad she was born and now here with me and my wife.
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Written on April 25, 1996
Submitted by Corsairpilot47 on October 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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