Child's Rain

Child's Rain

Joyous raindrops....falling.
They're falling just for me!
Outside quickly, hurry!
Grabbing my umbrella, the sky's calling.
Splishing, splashing, under gray clouds that are bawling.
Angle worms are dancing.
I'll put them in lovely mud pies.
Need more supplies...
I am fancying...
frosting of leaves, so pretty!
Twig candles are a surprise.
Oh please! Come to my rainy tea party.


Mr. Toad will you come?
You look hungry to me.
What for your chair? Let's see...
... this rock will do nicely, don't look so glum!
You can sing ribbitt, ribbitt, and I'll hum, hum, hum.
Now isn't this great fun!
Would you like to have some mud tea?
There is plenty.
No! Here comes the sun;
the rain was so pretty!
Mr. Sun you're a surprise.
Oh please! Come to my Sunny tea party!

         A La Courante

         The La Courante was a dance in the baroque period. Paul Scarron wrote in this form; in France it is known as one of the first classic free verse poems.

         This poem is formed by two stanzas. The first stanza is a model for the second stanza. In a way a kind of refrain is visible in the last three lines of the second stanza.

         Rhyme scheme and syllables...

         The syllables in one Courante stanza,
The rhyme can be divided in three parts. Scarron "played" with it in the second stanza, but as general you can keep this in your mind: a/b/b/a/a c/d/d/c e/d/e

         The last three lines in the second stanza do have the same rhyme as in the first stanza. (Basically what this means is that the last three lines in each stanza have the same ending rhymes/words!)