Analysis of A Little Green-Eyed Lass
A Little Green-eyed Lass
By Chris Commodore © 2000
As I through a store’s trodden isle walked by
A quiet little child so loving yet so shy
Perhaps to teach a lesson all should see
A Cherubim – no, Seraphim, reached out to me
Oh godly milky little soul
Not yet made drunk by adults’ hellish hate
Right now you typify the Holy Ghost, so wise
With pure innocent eyes that don’t yet see
Oh, little mind not yet part of the clan
You see me bearded, black, bald-headed, still a man
May God protect your pristine little mind
From seeing what those scornful grown-ups find
The judgments that they heap on me
Oh, how my spirit starts at what will be
How you’ll so soon become like them – adult!
Pure little soul so soon to be defiled
Borne here by fate, in time meek child beguiled
How soon those pure angelic eyes will see
And oh, like them your unspoiled soul will sin
Infected by that vile thing deep within.
| Scheme | XX AABB XCXBDD EEBBX CXBFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111 1110 1110110111 010101110111 0111010111 01111111 11010101 1111101101 11110010111 1110011111 1101111101 111101110101 1101110101 1101110111 01011111 1111011111 1111011101 110111111 1111011101 111110111 0111101111 0101111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 919 |
| Words | 177 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 6, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
About this poem
In 2000, I was shopping at an old discount store on Providence Highway in Boston. At that same time, a young mother with her little girl of no more than perhaps 2-3 years old was pushing a shopping cart in my direction. The young lady stopped briefly to look at an item, and at that same time the little girl with her bright blue eyes reached out to me with her arms opened asking for me to hug her. I was about to do just that when, I am sure, I heard a voice that clearly said to me: "Don't you dare! Don't you dare, I say. " I walked over to the next isle, pulled a piece of paper from my pocket and wrote this poem. Of the more than 300 poems I have written since then, this poem has been my inspiration and my masterpiece because of the circumstances under which it came about; and I keep writing even though my poems have not been officially published. more »
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