Analysis of Little Girl With a Crayon
Lifting out and down.
Lifting up above my crown,
Now over and down.
I reach above the ground,
The space between my ears and eyes.
I say, “glory to God.”
Tears fly.
Reaching despair does die.
Reaching now,
Reaching forever
Is love’s sparks,
Love marks
Like a little girl
With a crayon.
Innocent and pure,
She was sure.
As she strokes my heart
With colors,
It reaches my lips
Like flowers.
I say, “I love you.”
She says, “I do too.”
“Happy days are ahead,”
She reaches her fingers
As they spread.
She reaches for a color
To color my head
Until my eyes are fed.
She leads me to a springing
Fountain,
To a colored mountain.
“We are drawn,” she says
With a yawn and a dawn.
Ecstasy fills the rim
Of the world.
I reach for untold love.
A story to unfold, a dove.
On mercy’s wings she sings
And a world of hope and love
To God she brings.
| Scheme | AAABCDEEFGHHIJKKLMNMOOPMPGPPQRRSTUVWWXWX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (43%) Etheree (28%) |
| Metre | 10101 1010111 11001 110101 01011101 111011 11 100111 101 10010 111 11 10101 101 10001 111 11111 110 11011 110 11111 11111 101101 110010 111 1101010 11011 011111 1111010 10 101010 11111 101001 100101 101 111011 01010101 11111 0011101 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 855 |
| Words | 189 |
| Sentences | 19 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 40 |
| Lines Amount | 40 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 626 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 162 |
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This Poem is From: I Am A Man As I Should Be: Poem Book 1, on amazon, It’s formatted in Kindle, large print, audio, hardback, and paperback.
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