Rhyming Poems · For Kids
An Honest Note About My Homework
Dear Teacher: here's the honest truth
about my missing sheet.
The dog did NOT consume it.
(We own a parakeet.)
It wasn't lost in lava,
or stolen by a spy.
The truth is — I just didn't.
You said to never lie.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- An Honest Note About My Homework
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Rhyming Poems, Lyric Poem
- Themes
- For Kids, Funny
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 8 lines · 2 quatrains
- Line length
- Mostly 6-syllable lines (trimeter length).
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- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalAn Honest Note About My Homework, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 009e98f838dcd64d…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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