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Polly's Bags

David R Thompson 1954 (Wales)

Free verse
Polly's Bags

Too early yet
For Polly to stir,
To leave her patterned covers,
To choose her bag
For school today,
The folded care of others ....

Polly's mind is famined
Cloistered,
No ordinary little girl ...

Which bag today
Polly dear I coax:
"Peppa Pig, Little Mix, Mister Tumble Or Frozen".                                          

Polly chews Peppa Pig,
We head for school ...

Watching her through railings
Arguing with puddles,
Waving at,
But not waved back ....

About this poem

The poem is about a complex special needs infant, waking up and preparing for her school day ...

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Written on September 06, 2021

Submitted by dt233630 on January 27, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXBXCB AXX CXX XX XXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 479
Words 90
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 6, 3, 3, 2, 4
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