Analysis of Remembering Childhood
James Vincient Johnson 1952 (Algoma WV)
To those who forgot home …
Born in a shanty house
Deep deep in the mountains
West Virginia, I think they call it
No, not a hillbilly or alcoholic
Just a kid and symbolic.
Picking up hand-me-downs
Dare not show any frowns
Sharing with brothers and sister
Left nothing but a bone
Yet, we still call it home.
Molded and mended by parents
Who loves us so dearly
As rug rats -- not brats.
No one could ask for life better
Not even from heaven or a letter.
James Vincient Johnson
Copyright © 2003 James Vincient Johnson
| Scheme | A XXXBBCCDXAXXXDD E E |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011 100101 110010 101011111 1101001010 1010010 101111 111101 10110010 110101 111111 10010110 111110 11111 11111110 1101101010 1110 101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 542 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 15, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Childhood remembrances are gold...
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