brownie

In the poem titled “Brownie” written by A.A Milne contains both poetics and hermeneutics as all poems do. Poetics is how creative writhing works and hermeneutics are how or what it means. I think the poem is written for children as it as may rhymes and speaks about a curious child. The theme of the poem could be a curious child. The form of the poem consists of two stanzas ten lines and five sentences. It has a rhyme scheme of ABAB for the first stanza and ABCABC for the second. In the poem the curious child keeps looking behind the curtain but each time he looks the ‘Brownie” which could be the shadow of a tree or even the curtain itself moves. The image the child is seeing could resemble a brownie which is why he refers to it as a brownie or this could be a magical world where these things are real and are called brownie. In the poem the child says “(nanny isn’t certain too)” which suggested that the speaker was whispering. The speaker is also a child. The speaker also states that the "Brownie never wait to say, 'how do u do'" which states that the shadow goes away very quickly or the magical Brownie moves so fast u can't see them and they never say goodbye. this poem makes it easy to be understood by the child and also makes it easy to read.