Rhyming Poems · Poems About Mom
The Stubborn One
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Quick facts
- Poem
- The Stubborn One
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Rhyming Poems, Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Poems About Mom, Grief, Family, Spring
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
- Mostly 8-syllable lines (tetrameter length).
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalThe Stubborn One, 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 f4615f0dcd2d5b11…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.