Answer:
Bailey notices in Chapter 10 that the children of the neighborhood don't play with Todd. Ethan doesn't go to his house. When he comes around Bailey and Marshmallow feel his presence with fear. Bailey likes summer when they go to the Farm. He learns all the smells and sounds on the way to the town. One day when they are in the town, Bailey sees a dog catching a plastic disk. When they get home Ethan goes to his room to start making "the flip," a cross between a frisbee, When Ethan throws it Bailey can't catch it and Ethan becomes discouraged.
I've been meaning to <em>ask you</em>
If that's not too <em>drastical</em>
wonder if it's <em>okay</em>
To pick you up by<em> eight</em>
The rhyme scheme of this poem is AABB. The rhyme in this poem is achieved by the pronounciation and stress put into "ask you"; stressing ASK and then stressing the first syllabe of "drastical" and this way the rhyme on the first two lines is completed. Then for the last two lines the rhyme is achieved and the whole stanza resolved by stressing "okAY" and then "Eight".
Meter:
The stanza's meter is trochaic tetrameter (4 trochees, 8 syllables)
<em>I</em><em>'ve</em> <em>been </em>| <em>meaning</em><em> </em>| <em>to</em> | ask you
if that's | not | too | drastical
wonder | if | it's | okay
To pick | you up | by | eight
This rhyme scheme and meter are most used by rap artist for it's impact and flexibility to create a rhyme. The stressed words are the ones that address the receiver of the message that is a proposition for a meeting or a date. This poem is fitting for the rap music genre, for it's pronounciation of key words (with a suburban accent) completes the rhyme in the second and third lines ("oKAY" and "DRAStical").
