Upstairs Racers



All the noise from upstairs is outrageous!
  They should lock up their children in cages!
But it isn’t the children I blame.
  It’s their parents who made this a game!
They run all day long !
  They’re like Gold Medal strong!
Every day’s like a day at the races!

About this poem

It’s about my upstairs neighbor and all the children she babysits and how I felt living beneath them!

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Written on September 16, 2008

Submitted by Jodilinns on May 05, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCCDDE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 273
Words 54
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7

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