Lyric Poem · Poems About Dad
The Sound of Childhood
We groaned at every pun you made,
we begged you, "Dad, please stop";
you'd grin and double down, of course —
"Hi, Hungry. I'm your Pop."
But here's the secret, now we're grown,
that none of us would trade:
the sound of childhood, looking back,
is laughter you had made.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- The Sound of Childhood
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Rhyming Poems
- Themes
- Poems About Dad, Family, Funny
Craft notes
How this poem works
Measured from the text on this page, not copied from a summary. Counts are approximate: syllables and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which models General American English, so dialect, older pronunciation, and performance can all change what you hear.
- Shape
- 8 lines · 2 quatrains
- End rhyme
- ABCB in every stanza — ballad rhyme — only lines 2 and 4 chime.
- Line length
- Consistent with common metre. Alternating eight- and six-syllable lines — the hymn stanza (8.6.8.6), the most-used quatrain in English verse.
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- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalThe Sound of Childhood, 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 ca6ab756cb982443…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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