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Grade: 2
Memory Lesson • Pastoral Lyric Verse
“In all the wide world there is nothing so sweet
As my little lamb with nimble feet;
With eyes so bright and wool so white,
Oh, my little lamb is my heart’s delight!
When shines the warm sun, and the soft wind blows,
We roam in the meadow where green grass grows;
We dance and skip; we run and leap,
And, when we are weary, lie down to sleep.”
As my little lamb with nimble feet;
With eyes so bright and wool so white,
Oh, my little lamb is my heart’s delight!
When shines the warm sun, and the soft wind blows,
We roam in the meadow where green grass grows;
We dance and skip; we run and leap,
And, when we are weary, lie down to sleep.”
Recitation Focus: Couplet rhymes (AABB CCDD) • Kinetic action verbs • Memory transcription.
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Poetic Couplets & Sensory Adjectives
Study the musical rhymes and descriptive words that paint the picture of the lamb:
1. Rhyming Couplets: sweet & ; white & ; blows & ; leap &
2. Internal Rhyme: In line 3, find two words inside the line that rhyme: and
3. Nimble Feet: What does nimble mean when describing the lamb's feet? Quick, light, and
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Lively Action Verbs in the Spring Meadow
Notice how the poet uses lively paired verbs to show the joyful play:
1. Paired Actions: List the four movement verbs from line 7: We and ; we and .
2. Setting: Where do the child and little lamb roam together?
They roam in the meadow where
3. Weary Rest: What do they do when they become weary from play?
When weary, they
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Memory Transcription • Lines 5 to 8
Write the last four lines of the poem neatly from memory with exact punctuation: