Childless



I was born on sunday the eleventh
 it was autumn the trees were still leafy
 I imagine my mother puffing and gasp
 for breath during the pain she was going through

 My weight was seven and a half pounds
 not really a lightweigth as you can see
 mother was rather fragile not too tall
 so what a immense job it must have been

 Though everything worked out just fine
 she survived it and I'm still alive
 after  me came another brother
 and then there were six of us

 She got three boys and three girls
 nice throw I always did plead
 funny how some women go for it
 and others do not want one

 I had once the wish in life
 to have a child of my own
 though it worked out different
 and I'm happy with that now

Children would have turned my life
 upside down and rather uneasy
so I made the best of it without
 really quite suitable and happy
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Submitted by Jet-Rood on July 28, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXX XAXX XXXX XXXX BXXX BAXA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 817
Words 163
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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