Analysis of We Only get to Watch
Watching our children's growth,
It's a most amazing sight,
It seems they were one yesterday,
And twenty-one tonight.
They learn many things,
At a most astonishing pace,
As if being a child,
Is an unstoppable race.
And everything they see and do,
While bouncing off the walls,
Is absorbed throughout each day
Before the night time falls.
We enjoy watching our children,
As their day goes slower and slower
That’s when all the trouble begins
Because now play time is over.
| Scheme | X A B A X C X C X D B D X E X E |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 1010101 1110110 010101 11101 10101001 111001 1101001 0101101 110101 1010111 010111 101101010 111110010 11101001 01111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 488 |
| Words | 108 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| 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) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 23 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
About this poem
It's about our children and their growth!
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Written on September 11, 2020
Submitted by lwmorgan on January 09, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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