The Day Of Sunshine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DE ABABFF GH ABABII GJ ABABK LM ABABNN OP| It was such a lovely sunshine day | A |
| The house and the yard couldn't hold me | B |
| I roved to the woods on my back I lay | A |
| In cradle of fancy rolled me | B |
| But there were ants and gnats that bite | C |
| The horse fly was keen the wasp showed fight | C |
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| 'Dear me don't you want to be out in this fine | D |
| weather ' said mother who sat on the steps and sang | E |
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| It was such a lovely sunshine day | A |
| The house and the yard couldn't hold me | B |
| A meadow I found on my back I lay | A |
| And sang what my spirit told me | B |
| Then snakes came crawling a fathom long | F |
| To bask in the sun I fled with my song | F |
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| 'In such blessed weather we can go barefoot ' said mother | G |
| as she pulled off her stockings | H |
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| It was such a lovely sunshine day | A |
| The house and the yard couldn't hold me | B |
| I loosened a boat on my back I lay | A |
| While blithely the current bowled me | B |
| But hot grew the sun and peeled my nose | I |
| Enough was enough and to land I chose | I |
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| 'Now these are just the days to make hay in ' said mother | G |
| as she stuck the rake in it | J |
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| It was such a lovely sunshine day | A |
| The house and the yard couldn't hold me | B |
| I climbed up a tree oh what bliss to play | A |
| As cooling the breeze consoled me | B |
| But worms soon fell on my neck by chance | K |
| And jumping I cried ''T is the Devil's own dance ' | - |
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| 'Yes if the cows aren't sleek and shiny to day they'll | L |
| never be so ' said mother gazing up the hillside | M |
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| It was such a lovely sunshine day | A |
| The house and the yard couldn't hold me | B |
| I dashed to the waterfall's endless play | A |
| There only could peace enfold me | B |
| The shining sun saw me drown and die | N |
| If you made this ditty 't was surely not I | N |
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| 'Three more such sunshine days and everything will | O |
| be in ' said mother and went to make my bed | P |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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