The poem Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies, is written in open verse. It has no particular rhyme scheme and does not have any parameter. I was able to locate a couple of metaphors. In line 3 when she writes, "Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies" (3). Also in line 30 she writes, "To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died" (30). I do not feel that Edna wrote this poem with much thought of rhyme schemes and iambicpentameter. Rather I think she wrote this poem out of a deep feeling she had inside her. Sometimes feelings can loose there meaning if you don not express them just the way they feel. I believe that is the case in this poem. This is a case where Edna just wanted to express a feeling excactly the way it felt inside of her. To me, this poem comes across as a depressing relalization of no no longer having the innocents the being a....

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