Childhood Lament
John A. Stangeland 1944 (Jamestown, ND)
Whereupon the earth's cold soil
Beast may live and man must toil
A child knows not what's the matter
To them life is but a tasty platter
Piled high each day and night
With love and play and sweet delight
Of all the woes they know not many
Their lives are but a blissful cranny
'Tis good I say that children play
And not be bothered by the day
Their innocence will soon be lost
And not without a highly cost
For when that joyful time's no more
Alas, a man is very poor
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Written for Poetry.com and (C) in 2001 for a contest at that time.
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Written on July 28, 2023
Submitted on July 28, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 473 |
Words | 100 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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