A Day In Bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKLI wish I had not got a cold | A |
The wind is big and wild | B |
I wish that I was very old | A |
Not just a little child | B |
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Somehow the day is very long | C |
Just keeping here alone | D |
I do not like the big wind's song | C |
He's growling for a bone | D |
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He's like an awful dog we had | E |
Who used to creep around | F |
And snatch at things he was so bad | E |
With just that horrid sound | F |
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I'm sitting up and nurse has made | G |
Me wear a woolly shawl | H |
I wish I was not so afraid | G |
It's horrid to be small | H |
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It really feels quite like a day | I |
Since I have had my tea | J |
P'raps everybody's gone away | I |
And just forgotten me | J |
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And oh I cannot go to sleep | K |
Although I am in bed | L |
The wind keeps going creepy creep | K |
And waiting to be fed | L |
Katherine Mansfield
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