The Shop

The Shop 1962 (Florence, Oregon)



My heart is a shop,
I give love inside,
All the canisters filled;
All the shelves stocked high.
So I open the door,
And see people pass;
But no one comes in,
They just look through the glass

My shop is so lonely,
For my stock is alive;
All the canisters bursting,
Still people pass by

The shop I now close,
Then break into tears;
For no one's come in,
Through these many years.

The shop is still closed,
All the stock on shelves;
All the canisters kept,
Alone; To myself

Until the day,
Someone knocks on my door.
To take all my stock,
And empty my store

About this poem

Written May 1, 1980 by William R Scharen Jr

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Written on May 01, 1980

Submitted on July 16, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXABCDC XXXA XXDX XXXX XBXB
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 558
Words 133
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 8, 4, 4, 4, 4

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