Summertime Sharing
By Nikki Grimes
Theme
The theme is about the importance of sharing. Sharing can help someone or make their day. The poem starts with a girl pouting and ends with a girl smiling because of the sharing.
Poetic Diveces
Rhyme scheme-In each stanza lines 1 and 2 rhyme.
Metaphor-"Me and my fast feet are there and back in just two shakes." It explains how fast the speaker walked to the ice cream truck.
Alliteration-"fast feet" shows this as well.