Anne Bradstreet's "To Her Father with Some Verses" is written in heroic couplets, which are two-line groups in iambic pentameter with a "aa bb cc..." rhyme scheme. This poem was published in 1650 in London during Bradstreet's young adulthood, when she was already well-established as a poet and prose writer. The form of poetry that Anne Bradstreet wrote in was popular at the time, but it is her personal style that makes her work so memorable today. As with many poets of her era, most of what we know about Bradstreet comes from other people's writings. She has been called the first American poet because many of her poems were written about America then sent to newspapers and magazines in London. Today she is best known for her writing about household chores and domestic life. Bradstreet was born in 1612 in Southold, New York, the only child of poor farmers who could not afford to keep her in school. When she reached puberty, she was forced to leave home to live with her sister, who was married to a man named Daffin who ran a tavern in Boston. There she learned how to manage the house and run a kitchen garden.