Tea Time
After Grandma brewed the tea,
Set out the silver pot and the claw
Grasping sugar cubes,
She let me take the china
Off the shelf with eiderdown
Hands, twice washed.
I surveyed the spoons,
Considered a new arrival,
Chose instead aged pewter
With a ruby end,
A scepter for the Queen.
Even then she promised
The spoons to me,
The glass table to my sister,
The canes to my brother.
The roasting pan that cooks
Thanksgiving feasts presents a problem.
Her sons argue over it.
Don't make them like that
Anymore.
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDDEFGHIJKAHHLMNOP |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 484 |
Words | 91 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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