A Burden on My Family
George Cook 1934 (Lanarkshire)
I wish I didn’t have to be
A burden on my family
But things I used to do before
I cannot do them anymore
Though whether large or whether small
My failings on my family fall
I could maybe do, if they’d ask,
Some small part of a bigger task
But if something needs to be done
They ask for nothing in return
“Thanks very much for that” I say
And in reply comes “That’s OK”
I wish I didn’t have to be
A burden on my family
About this poem
The poem is about old age and how it affects me
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Written on December 01, 2019
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AAbb ccdd xxee AA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 436 |
Words | 92 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
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