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Lyric Poem · For Kids

Snow Day

by The QuillOak Editors

1The radio said two words today,

2the finest ever spoken —

3no math, no bus, no spelling quiz,

4the whole white world is open!

5I'll build a fort, I'll eat the snow,

6(the white bits, mum, I promise!)

7and sleep tonight a happy lump,

8half-boy and half-pajamas.

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Quick facts

Poem
Snow Day
Poet
The QuillOak Editors
Length
8 lines
Form
Lyric Poem, Rhyming Poems
Themes
For Kids, Funny, Winter

Craft notes

How this poem works

Measured from the text on this page, not copied from a summary. Counts are approximate: syllables and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which models General American English, so dialect, older pronunciation, and performance can all change what you hear.

Shape
8 lines · 2 quatrains
End rhyme
No regular perfect end rhyme. The poem may still be using slant rhyme, assonance, or internal echo, which this check does not score.
Line length
Consistent with common metre. Alternating eight- and six-syllable lines — the hymn stanza (8.6.8.6), the most-used quatrain in English verse.
The poem’s silhouette — approximate syllables per line, measured from the text above. Even bars mean a measured line; ragged bars mean the poem sets its own widths.

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The QuillOak Editorstoday
Source record
QuillOak originalSnow Day, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
Display decision
Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
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Not recorded in the imported source
Text fingerprint
SHA-256 3aeb45842e54140d
Editorial handling
Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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