Analysis of Something To Do
Something To Do
If you're a mom, you know it's true,
There always seems to be something to do;
Our kids think we're only -- the answer "NO,"
They think we wait around, for them to ask to go,
To the mall, to a friends', or maybe a show;
Just so we can point out -- "your room is not just so!"
They forget the laundry, sweeping, dishes, and mopping,
Dusting, cooking, change the baby, then go shopping;
They need some cookies for the bake sale...today,
"Can you do it, Mom -- or else what will my friends say?"
They don't see a maid, chef, baker, seamstress, laundress,
Nurse, or chauffeur -- just Mom -- why all the stress?
Then one day, when you think all is for naught,
They bring you a card, showing they do care -- they're caught;
They have picked up some of what you've said,
It isn't just M.C. Hammer inside of their head;
As they go out on their own, to join the human race crowd,
We let them go, and with tears in our eyes say -- I am so proud;
As the youngest one leaves, and we look around,
The "Something to Do" has been replaced, by the quiet we've found.
Rosanne M. Mayes
Scheme | A AABBBB CCADDX XXEEFF GG X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 11011111 111111011 10111100101 111101111111 10110111001 111111111111 1010101010010 101010101110 111101011 111111111111 11101110101 1101111101 1111111111 111011011111 111111111 110101001111 11111111101011 1111011010111111 10101101101 01011111101011 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,119 |
Words | 239 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem one day when my son was young, because he seemed to always need me to do "something" for him.
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Written on December 04, 1991
Submitted by corkypidge on January 12, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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