I Wonder y Jeannie Kirby

Theme:

- Curiosity on how nature works from a child’s perspective.

Tones:

- Questioning

- Curious

Figurative Language:

(a) Alliteration:

-‘I wonder why the grass is green’.

-Repetition of the consonant ‘g’.

(b) Personification:

- ‘And told the trees to take a rest?’

- Giving human’s characteristics of taking a rest to a tree.

Forms:

(a) 8 syllables in each line;

- [I] [won] [der] [why] [the] [grass] [is] [green]

- [Why] [is] [it] [now] [do] [you] [sup] [pose]

- [And] [told] [the] [trees] [to] [take] [a] [rest]

- [And] [hangs] [the] [fluf] [fy] [clouds] [so] [high]

(b) Every verse rhymes;

-‘Who lights the stars, when they blow out,’

- ‘And makes the lightning flash about?’