There Is No School Today Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDED FGFGDED HDHDDED DIBBDD| Twas on a common street she lived | A |
| Her mothers eye the occasional glance | B |
| While playing on skates with other kids | C |
| Sometimes on wheels she d try to dance | B |
| But rising early she d always say | D |
| The bestest news that I can hear | E |
| There is no school today | D |
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| Until one night this shadow appeared | F |
| To cross the loveliest face of all | G |
| With tears in her eyes her mother feared | F |
| No more she d hear her angel call | G |
| Those same few words she d always say | D |
| The bestest news that I can hear | E |
| There is no school today | D |
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| Tis in the early morning the church bell it did ring | H |
| As school kids gather round to fiddle and to prate | D |
| The choir sets up for there s hymns to sing | H |
| As the hearse stands still beside the church gate | D |
| While a thousand penny candles say | D |
| The bestest news that I can hear | E |
| There is no school today | D |
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| Twas on a common street she lived | D |
| Yet still her mothers eye that occasional glance she d give | I |
| Roller skates abandoned no longer do they dance | B |
| Those kids are all grown up now with boyfriends and romance | B |
| But still her mother hears her angle daughter say | D |
| The bestest news that you can hear I m back at school today | D |
Tony Dockery
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