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Outside My Window

Brenda Catherine Bailey 1952 (Maryland)

Outside my window
what do I see
Poverty stricken people
with lack of harmony

Poverty stricken children
growing up too fast
Poverty stricken footsteps
of misguided paths

Poverty stricken buildings
suffering from neglect
Poverty stricken allies
with oversized rats!

About this poem

My creative writing instructor gave the class the assignment to look outside our window and write a poem as to what we saw.

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Submitted by bbailey21 on April 02, 2022

Modified on April 17, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XXXX XXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 273
Words 49
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
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