![]() ![]() The pattern also should help keep a child’s attention for longer. It is used to make the lines more pleasing to read as well as listen to. The poem was aimed at a younger audience, therefore the sing-song like the rhythm of the lines is perfect. ![]() This pattern is common within Silverstein’s work. It follows the pattern of AABBCCDD, and so on, alternating end sounds as the lines progress. The lines are structured in a particular rhyme scheme. ‘Sick’ by Shel Silverstein is a thirty-two line poem that is contained within one block of text. Especially when one gets to the end and it turns out it was Saturday all along. (But the reader should be enjoying her very funny attempts at coercion.) This is a fact that makes the poem all the more amusing. It’s unclear if the child speaker knows how absurd she sounds. ![]() They range from having measles to a cough and a shrunken brain. These come list-like in the next thirty-one lines. There is an endless number of reasons she supplies her parents to support her decision. The poem begins with the speaker stating that she is not going to school. ![]() ‘ Sick’ by Shel Silverstein is a light-hearted depiction of a child who does whatever she can to convince her parents she can’t go to school. ![]()
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