A Sick Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB AABC DBAB AEAE AFDF| The postman comes when I am still in bed | A |
| quot Postman what do you have for me today quot | A |
| I say to him But really I'm in bed | A |
| Then he says what shall I have him say | B |
| - | |
| quot This letter says that you are president | A |
| Of this word here it's a republic quot | A |
| Tell them I can't answer right away | B |
| quot It's your duty quot No I'd rather just be sick | C |
| - | |
| Then he tells me there are letters saying everything | D |
| That I can think of that I want for them to say | B |
| I say quot Well thank you very much Good bye quot | A |
| He is ashamed and turns and walks away | B |
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| If I can think of it it isn't what I want | A |
| I want I want a ship from some near star | E |
| To land in the yard and beings to come out | A |
| And think to me quot So this is where you are | E |
| - | |
| Come quot Except that they won't do | A |
| I thought of them And yet somewhere there must be | F |
| Something that's different from everything | D |
| All that I've never thought of think of me | F |
Randall Jarrell
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