I Built a Big Building

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I Built a Big Building by Kenn Nesbitt

I built a big building for building big buildings.
My building was massive and wide.
And inside that building I built a new building
for building more buildings inside.

And in that new building I built one more building.
And, in there, I built several more.
With every new building inside the last building,
I kept building buildings galore.

I don’t know how many new buildings I built,
but it must have been dozens or scores.
Unfortunately, I’m now trapped in the last one.
I didn’t build windows or doors.

— Kenn Nesbitt

Reading Level: Grade 3

Topics: Imaginary Poems, Wacky Weirdness, Wordplay

Poetic Techniques: Alliteration, Narrative Poems, Repetition, Wordplay

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