1. In lines 1 - 12 , what words or phrases give you clues about the identity of the speaker?

2. Who do you think the speaker is?

3. In lines 13 - 21, what phrases are repeated in most of the stanza?

4. What is the purpose of the repeated phrase? What does it emphasize?


1- Shadows on the wall

Noises down the hall

Life doesn't frighten me at all


2- Bad dogs barking loud

Big ghosts in a cloud

Life doesn't frighten me at all


3- Mean old Mother Goose

Lions on the loose

They don't frighten me at all


4- Dragons breathing flame

On my counterpane

That doesn't frighten me at all.


5- I go boo

Make them shoo

I make fun

Way they run

I won't cry

So they fly

I just smile

They go wild


6- Life doesn't frighten me at all.


7- Tough guys fight

All alone at night

Life doesn't frighten me at all.


8- Panthers in the park

Strangers in the dark

No, they don't frighten me at all.


9-That new classroom where

Boys all pull my hair

(Kissy little girls

With their hair in curls)

They don't frighten me at all.


10- Don't show me frogs and snakes

And listen for my scream,

If I'm afraid at all

It's only in my dreams.


11- I've got a magic charm

That I keep up my sleeve

I can walk the ocean floor

And never have to breathe.


12- Life doesn't frighten me at all

Not at all

Not at all.

Life doesn't frighten me at all.