![]() ![]() ![]() The poem rhymes: the first two stanzas rhyme abcccb (where ‘wind’ and ‘begins’ are taken to be rhymes in the first stanza), and the third stanza is essentially a shorter version of the form used in the first two stanzas, retaining only the final four lines and doing without the first two, and so rhyming aaab. The poem comprises three stanzas of six, six, and four lines respectively. The fact that children know how to reach this limit or threshold, and then to go beyond it into the magical world beyond, strongly suggests that the world Silverstein is hinting at is one of play, imagination, and freedom, which adults tend to lose once sight of once they get too used to sticking to the path, viewing the sidewalk as merely a means of getting from A to B. ![]() And if those chalk arrows also direct us somewhere, their gesturing is less a directive than a friendly tip, a wink to the reader that another way, and another world, exist just out of sight. ![]()
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