Hi Dogpack, Your "Service Dog Bella" came up on Read and Review. It's an old one but I am here to share my thoughts.

First Impression: You get the sympathy and dog lover reader right off. Yes I'm one of them, and hesitated, was it going to make me cry?

The frame: A poem written in 14 lines made up of a tercet, a quatrain, a tercet, a quatrain, in that order. A quatorzain, but not a sonnet, there is not pivot nor any apparent metric or syllabic pattern though it is rhymed. Rhyme scheme xaa bbcc ddx eeff x being unrhymed.

The rhythm is a little stocatto, language simple. Emotion, high, there is definitely a sadness at your loss.

I found this poem a sweet tribute to a dog who was obviously important to you.

Thank you for this read.

~~Tink


My review has been submitted for consideration in "Good Deeds Get CASH!" .