The windy night

This task is about finding information and making inferences from a text.
Read the poem The Windy Night by Vivienne Joseph (from 100 New Zealand Poems for Children, 1999) and answer the questions below.

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a)  Why can't the person in the poem get to sleep?

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b)  What is the first sound the person in the poem hears?

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c)  What do the branches, twigs, and leaves sound like to the person in the poem?

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d)  What do the stars look like to the person in the poem?

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e)  Write down two clues from the poem that show it is night-time.
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f)  Why is the poem written in two columns?

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g)  Describe a time you felt like the person in the poem.
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