If Only ---- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IJKKLLMM NNOPKK MM| If only dinner cooked itself | A |
| And groceries grew upon the shelf | A |
| If children did as they were told | B |
| And never had a cough or cold | B |
| And washed their hands and wiped their boots | C |
| And never tore their Sunday suits | C |
| But always tidied up the floor | D |
| Nor once forgot to shut the door | D |
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| If John remembered not to throw | E |
| His papers on the ground And oh | E |
| If he would put his pipes away | F |
| And shake the ashes on the tray | F |
| Instead of on the floor close by | G |
| And always spread his towel to dry | G |
| And hung his hat upon the peg | H |
| And never had bones in his leg | H |
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| Then there's another thing If Jane | I |
| Would put the matches back again | J |
| Just where she found them it would be | K |
| A save of time to her and me | K |
| And if she never did forget | L |
| To put the dustbin out nor yet | L |
| Contrive to gossip with the baker | M |
| Nor need ten thunderbolts to wake her | M |
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| Ahem If wishes all came true | N |
| I don't know what I'd find to do | N |
| Because if no one made a mess | O |
| There'd be no need of cleanliness | P |
| And things might work so blissfully | K |
| In time who knows they'd not need me | K |
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| And this being so I fancy whether | M |
| I'll go on keeping things together | M |
Fay Inchfawn
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