Rhyming Poems · For Kids
The Escaped Yawn
A yawn escaped at dinner
(I'd kept it in all day);
it leapt from me to Papa,
then swallowed Mom halfway.
It got the dog. It got the fish.
It rolled on down our street.
So if the whole town's yawning now,
that's mine. (I think that's neat.)
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Quick facts
- Poem
- The Escaped Yawn
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Rhyming Poems, Nonsense Poems
- Themes
- For Kids, Funny
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
- ABCB in every stanza — ballad rhyme — only lines 2 and 4 chime.
- Line length
- Lines run 6-8 syllables (median 7). No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalThe Escaped Yawn, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 3188cd43c7d0a01b…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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