Snow Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDD EFGHB DIDJK DALID MMMMN OOOMO PQDBD RABST| Today we woke up to a revolution of snow | A |
| its white flag waving over everything | B |
| the landscape vanished | C |
| not a single mouse to punctuate the blankness | D |
| and beyond these windows | D |
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| the government buildings smothered | E |
| schools and libraries buried the post office lost | F |
| under the noiseless drift | G |
| the paths of trains softly blocked | H |
| the world fallen under this falling | B |
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| In a while I will put on some boots | D |
| and step out like someone walking in water | I |
| and the dog will porpoise through the drifts | D |
| and I will shake a laden branch | J |
| sending a cold shower down on us both | K |
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| But for now I am a willing prisoner in this house | D |
| a sympathizer with the anarchic cause of snow | A |
| I will make a pot of tea | L |
| and listen to the plastic radio on the counter | I |
| as glad as anyone to hear the news | D |
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| that the Kiddie Corner School is closed | M |
| the Ding Dong School closed | M |
| the All Aboard Children's School closed | M |
| the Hi Ho Nursery School closed | M |
| along with some will be delighted to hear | N |
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| the Toadstool School the Little School | O |
| Little Sparrows Nursery School | O |
| Little Stars Pre School Peas and Carrots Day School | O |
| the Tom Thumb Child Center all closed | M |
| and clap your hands the Peanuts Play School | O |
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| So this is where the children hide all day | P |
| These are the nests where they letter and draw | Q |
| where they put on their bright miniature jackets | D |
| all darting and climbing and sliding | B |
| all but the few girls whispering by the fence | D |
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| And now I am listening hard | R |
| in the grandiose silence of the snow | A |
| trying to hear what those three girls are plotting | B |
| what riot is afoot | S |
| which small queen is about to be brought down | T |
Billy Collins
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