Mosquito Poetry Ap Prompts

We believe the speaker is a little boy, because he is at a playground and all his friends are boys. While the children are playing, one gets bit by a mosquito and has a conversation with it. The tone of the poem is youthful and humorous due to the situation presented. The form of the poem is the second and fourth line of the stanza rhyme, this is sometimes known as an ABCB rhyme scheme. Sound is important in the poem because it shows the actions of the kids as the bug bites them. This mosquito poem seems to have a southern American vernacular, we believe this because of the peculiar choice of words such as “skeeter’s”, “‘em”, and goin’”. All these words seem to be those of a southern dialect. The poem uses imagery to display the children