Analysis of A Talk With My Father
I was ten and I had a talk with my father.
I asked him, "Do you have to be
Educated to be wise?
Without blinking an eye, he said,
"No! Because wisdom is a gift from God,
And although you have to "earn it,"
You don't necessarily go to school to get it."
I knew what "wise" meant. And I knew it
From the kids I'd play with at school.
The word "wisdom," I did not understand.
My father "straightened me up" by
Writing (in "Bicol") on the inside of a
"Bataan Matamis" cigarette pack turned
Inside out. Here's the translation:
"Wisdom is the uncommon sense of things
Around and about life. And it is "earned,"
Not "learned" through deeds divine and great."
My father, with Father in Heaven now
For many years was a good child
Of God and father to me, and I miss him so.
I hope I am like my father--to my children.
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Metre | 111011011110 11111111 100111 01101111 1011010111 0111111 110100111111 111110111 10111111 011011101 11010111 1001100110 0110111 01110010 1010010111 0100110111 11110101 1101100101 11011011 110101101111 111111101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 788 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 10, 4 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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