Red Patent Shoes -- revision

[Lizzie]

Makeshift: you're absolutely right about the first stanza introducing a feeling of envy from the narrator. And then this contrasts with the second stanza where the image of the perfect couple dissolves. Yuppers.

Also, you're right that the gender is not specified. I didn't think about that. Good catch.

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I understand the poem, but not sure why I should care.  

I don't know how I would accomplish this (compelling someone else to care).