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    The poem describes how the speaker has to go to bed during the day in summer, unlike in winter when they get up at night. They find it difficult to go to sleep with the sounds of birds hopping in trees and people walking outside, when the sky is clear and blue and they would rather be playing. The title "Bed in Summer" directly relates to the poem's theme of having to sleep during the daytime in the summer months.

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    The poem describes how the speaker has to go to bed during the day in summer, unlike in winter when they get up at night. They find it difficult to go to sleep with the sounds of birds hopping in trees and people walking outside, when the sky is clear and blue and they would rather be playing. The title "Bed in Summer" directly relates to the poem's theme of having to sleep during the daytime in the summer months.

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    The poem describes how the speaker has to go to bed during the day in summer, unlike in winter when they get up at night. They find it difficult to go to sleep with the sounds of birds hopping in trees and people walking outside, when the sky is clear and blue and they would rather be playing. The title "Bed in Summer" directly relates to the poem's theme of having to sleep during the daytime in the summer months.

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    Bed in Summer

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    In winter I get up at night


    And dress by yellow candle-light.
    In summer, quite the other way,
    I have to go to bed by day.
    I have to go to bed and see
    The birds still hopping on the tree,
    Or hear the grown-up people’s feet
    Still going past me in the street.
    And does it not seem hard to you,
    When all the sky is clear and blue,
    And I should like so much to play,
    To have to go to bed by day?

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    1. What is the message of the poem?
    2. How is the title related to the poem?
    3. List some figures of speech used in the poem.
    4. List some words that rhymes in every line.

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