If I Were Santa Claus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJKKHH| IF only I were Santa Claus I 'd travel east and west | A |
| To every hovel where there lies a little child at rest | A |
| I'd drive my reindeer over roofs they'd never trod before | B |
| I 'd seek the tenements where sleep the babies on the floor | B |
| Where rags are stuffed in broken panes to keep the wind away | C |
| And where a warm and cozy room is never known today | C |
| For even there I know I 'd find hung up the stockings small | D |
| As signs that they expected me on Christmas Eve to call | D |
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| If only I were Santa Claus I 'd pass the mansions by | E |
| And seek the cold and cheerless homes where palefaced youngsters lie | E |
| And as they slept I 'd pause a while and bending low I 'd kiss | F |
| The lips of every little tot not one of them I 'd miss | F |
| And then I 'd fill their stockings full of toys and sugar plums | G |
| And leave them sleighs and skates and dolls and Teddy bears and drums | G |
| I would not pass a cottage by but I would try to be | H |
| A Santa Claus to every tot who still has faith in me | H |
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| If only I were Santa Claus I 'd make the mothers glad | I |
| The dear hard working mothers who at Christmas time are sad | I |
| The kind and patient mothers who rock their babes to sleep | J |
| And through the lonely hours of night sob bitterly and weep | J |
| They see their precious little ones half clad and hungry too | K |
| Knowing the sorrow that must come to them when night is through | K |
| To every mother's face I 'd bring the smiles once more and we | H |
| Would spend a while together at her babies' Christmas tree | H |
Edgar Albert Guest
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