Three Little Boys



Three little boys who love to play games
Ryan, Garrett, and Ethan are their names

Out they go to play tag on the lawn
Now it's hide and seek and off they're gone

I come out to find them and look all around
Wait a minute, I hear a sound

It's coming from behind that tree
Perhaps if I'm quiet they won't hear me

I move silently, they don't hear a thing
I'm going to catch them for I'm the monster king

I spring up behind them, "Boo!" I shout
They all start to scream and jump about

Off they run and hide beneath the trampoline
They fear the monster king thinking he is mean

But really I'm not a bad monster you know
It's just that I tripped and stubbed my toe

I tell them I'm sorry I'll not scare them again
Because really all I want is to be their friend

So I take them inside for a snack and a drink
Someday they'll have kids of their own I think

But even then my little boys they'll always be
For I am their father and I love them all three.

About this poem

something i wrote for my boys years ago.

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Submitted by chriss.44537 on April 21, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH XX II DD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 952
Words 204
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

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