A suggestion: the watch on the wrist represents the reimposition of time and schedule and order and life's demands, everything that the girl has been escaping and resisting from the beginning of the poem until it turns on the mother's voice, and the list of errands, and the watch.
I wonder whether we should understand that the mother calls and then the list is handed over and the watch put on. I can't insist that this reading is correct, but it sneaks into my mind.
And hurray for the ability to let us feel meter without bashing it out like a metronome.
And a second hurray for slant rhyme.
And could a poem with this theme and content realistically be anything but loose? A stricter form would unsay it.
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