Analysis of Pockets



We're worn from worry-
Salvation Army serves us dinner,
we tried to get by, but we're thinner.
It's our family's first time here,
my parent's eyes are red from tears.
When the cost of living became
so high,
I heard my parents cry.

We're all filing in, quiet, as the
soup kitchen volunteers gently
smile,
we haven't smiled in a while.
There's many other children
here,
I wish there was more cheer.
I just saw two siblings of
another family,
put biscuits in their pockets-
hoping no one would see.
I understand that now,
I really do,
I just put biscuits in my
pockets too. ~


Scheme ABBCXXDD XAEEXCXXAXAXFDF
Poetic Form
Metre 11110 010101110 111111110 110100111 11011111 10111001 11 111101 111001010 1100110 1 1101001 1101010 1 111111 1111101 010100 1100110 101111 10111 1101 1111001 101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 574
Words 122
Sentences 8
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 15
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 219
Words per stanza (avg) 53

About this poem

This poem is about hunger in the U.S.

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Written on May 04, 2023

Submitted by on May 04, 2023

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Regina Elliott

Regina Elliott is sixty-five and resides in North Carolina. She was a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee. more…

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