Analysis of Hugs

Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)



Some adults today like to say

they were not enough time cuddled.

Well fair enough, that can be rough,

but let's not gets things befuddled.

Did she wake you each day in time for school?

Did her fingers tie your laces?

Did she comb your hair, was she always there?

Not away in exotic places.

Did you most always eat, though that was quite a feat,

On very limited resources.

Were you welcomed in, when you caused a din, at 3 in the morning.

Did you feel the love when she straightened your tie?

When she wiped your nose, cleaned sleep from your eye.

When she ran upstairs for the hundredth time to fetch for you your glasses.

100000 cuddles hidden in a sea of necessities,

By a parent with 100 jobs and 5 different places to be.


Scheme X A X A X B X B X X X C C B X X
Poetic Form
Metre 10101111 10101110 11011111 11111010 1111110111 10101110 111111111 101001010 11111111101 110100100 011001110110010 11101111011 1111111111 11101101011111110 11000110100 10101101001011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 744
Words 170
Sentences 12
Stanzas 16
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 9

About this poem

About the everyday care given by Parents

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Written on March 03, 2024

Submitted by robertl.92681 on March 03, 2024

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