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Is this childhood? Sores in feet & palms, sweating

Is this childhood?
Sores in feet & palms,
sweating throughout for alms
axes and shovels in tiny hands,
hardly a meal till sunset,
shiny eyes - so hopeless & dreadful,
innocent heart burdened
with work...
Is this childhood?  Child labour... 

CHALLENGE 2 

ENVELOPE

Envelope, is a device in poetry in which poem begins and ends with the same line as in Sir Thomas Wyatt’s “Is it Possible?”:
Is this childhood?
Sores in feet & palms,
sweating throughout for alms
axes and shovels in tiny hands,
hardly a meal till sunset,
shiny eyes - so hopeless & dreadful,
innocent heart burdened
with work...
Is this childhood?  Child labour... 

CHALLENGE 2 

ENVELOPE

Envelope, is a device in poetry in which poem begins and ends with the same line as in Sir Thomas Wyatt’s “Is it Possible?”: