Happy Birthday to My Younger Brother
The Birth of My Younger Brother ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
July 23, 2023
It was the blizzard of 1960
A frigid bleak December day
Way back then in Canarsie Brooklyn
My pregnant mom did frantically say
Oh lord it’s coming the time is now!
To the hospital we must go!
All well and good and go they should
If not for the drifts of snow!
Dad grabbed my mom and off they darted
While howling winds did furiously blow
To the Volkswagen Bug they speedily flew
The engine started right up don’t you know!
Believe it or not in reverse he went
As he knew that would give it more traction
My mom must have been panic stricken
With a horrified reaction
But on that fateful horrific day
A day certainly like no other
Successfully to the hospital they arrived
Happy birthday to my younger brother!
About this poem
A true story about my younger bother's birth.
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Written on July 23, 2023
Submitted by shulman.gary on July 23, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXX XBCBXDXDXDXDXCCCBAXA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 786 |
Words | 154 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 20 |
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