Some Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD CEFG HIJA KLML NOCP| Some days I put the people in their places at the table | A |
| bend their legs at the knees | B |
| if they come with that feature | C |
| and fix them into the tiny wooden chairs | D |
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| All afternoon they face one another | C |
| the man in the brown suit | E |
| the woman in the blue dress | F |
| perfectly motionless perfectly behaved | G |
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| But other days I am the one | H |
| who is lifted up by the ribs | I |
| then lowered into the dining room of a dollhouse | J |
| to sit with the others at the long table | A |
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| Very funny | K |
| but how would you like it | L |
| if you never knew from one day to the next | M |
| if you were going to spend it | L |
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| striding around like a vivid god | N |
| your shoulders in the clouds | O |
| or sitting down there amidst the wallpaper | C |
| staring straight ahead with your little plastic face | P |
Billy Collins
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