Where are your shoes?
Where did your shoes go? Where could they be?
Are they under the bed or up in a tree?
How could your shoes have wandered so far?
To the back of the couch or inside the car?
Sometimes they scatter like kittens, I know,
One next to the sink and one under the snow.
Oh! Look here, I found them, they’re inside this box
Now wait just a minute, so where are your socks?
About this poem
Written one evening after taking care of my twin granddaughters (age 18 months) The shoe locations are only slightly exaggerated.
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Written on October 12, 2021
Submitted by jchslaton on March 20, 2022
Modified on May 01, 2023
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| Scheme | AABBCCDD |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 368 |
| Words | 80 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
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