A Sad Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE AFGHH IJKLMNMOPQ RFSLT KUJVT| You're sad because you're sad | A |
| It's psychic It's the age It's chemical | B |
| Go see a shrink or take a pill | C |
| or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll | D |
| you need to sleep | E |
| - | |
| Well all children are sad | A |
| but some get over it | F |
| Count your blessings Better than that | G |
| buy a hat Buy a coat or pet | H |
| Take up dancing to forget | H |
| - | |
| Forget what | I |
| Your sadness your shadow | J |
| whatever it was that was done to you | K |
| the day of the lawn party | L |
| when you came inside flushed with the sun | M |
| your mouth sulky with sugar | N |
| in your new dress with the ribbon | M |
| and the ice cream smear | O |
| and said to yourself in the bathroom | P |
| I am not the favorite child | Q |
| - | |
| My darling when it comes | R |
| right down to it | F |
| and the light fails and the fog rolls in | S |
| and you're trapped in your overturned body | L |
| under a blanket or burning car | T |
| - | |
| and the red flame is seeping out of you | K |
| and igniting the tarmac beside your head | U |
| or else the floor or else the pillow | J |
| none of us is | V |
| or else we all are | T |
Margaret Atwood
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