Rhyming Poems · For Kids
The Tooth Economy
I lost a tooth on Monday;
the fairy paid a buck.
I counted nineteen others and
could not believe my luck.
I wiggled them all morning —
my fortune, ripe to fall!
(Mom says I can't "speed harvest."
Mom's no fun at all.)
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Quick facts
- Poem
- The Tooth Economy
- 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
- End rhyme
- ABCB in every stanza — ballad rhyme — only lines 2 and 4 chime.
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- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalThe Tooth Economy, 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 51b142ea8fd1e2a0…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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