What To Do Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHHHIJEJ FGKGLBEB ABCBFMBM| IF I had wealth and I had health | A |
| And I 'd a roof above me | B |
| If I'd a wife to cheer my life | C |
| But not one child to love me | B |
| No rosy lipped young laughing miss | D |
| No bright eyed roguish laddie | E |
| I 'd search the town both up and down | F |
| Till one should call me daddie | E |
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| I would not have a roof that ne'er | G |
| Knew sound of childish chatter | H |
| Nor keep a floor unlettered o'er | H |
| By little feet that patter | H |
| Nor would I hang upon my walls | I |
| Great pictures just to show them | J |
| Unless a tot had left a lot | E |
| Of finger marks below them | J |
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| I would not like to settle down | F |
| Within my old armchair | G |
| And take my ease with empty knees | K |
| I want a youngster there | G |
| Likewise with everything I have | L |
| How incomplete 't would be | B |
| Unless I had a girl or lad | E |
| To share it all with me | B |
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| And so I say if I had wealth | A |
| And had a roof above me | B |
| If I 'd a wife to cheer my life | C |
| But had no child to love me | B |
| Then I would search both up and down | F |
| To beg or buy or borrow | M |
| A child to be a part of me | B |
| I 'd have one here tomorrow | M |
Edgar Albert Guest
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