A Day In Bed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| I 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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