Nothing To Do Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDAAA EAEFGFGAAA HAHIBIBAAA JAJAA AAAA AAAKILIAA MAMAAAAAA ANANOPFPA A QAQARARAA| Don't know what to do to day | A |
| Got so many things to do | B |
| I can't do them Want to play | A |
| But my toys are all too new | B |
| I don't like to play with them | C |
| Blocks and paints and dogs and guns | D |
| Watch that winds up by the stem | C |
| And a train of cars that runs | D |
| Round a track and far away | A |
| Don't know what to do to day | A |
| Don't know what to do to day | A |
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| Whether just to stand and look | E |
| At my Christmas tree or stay | A |
| Looking at my picture book | E |
| Full of fairy stories or | F |
| Ask to have them read to me | G |
| Or to bother mother for | F |
| Something off the Christmas tree | G |
| I don't know and I can't say | A |
| Don't know what to do to day | A |
| Don't know what to do to day | A |
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| Never can make up my mind | H |
| I could take my new red sleigh | A |
| And go sleighing on behind | H |
| Some old wagon on the snow | I |
| As the other children do | B |
| But you see I just don't know | I |
| There's my brand new wagon too | B |
| It'd be lonesome me away | A |
| Don't know what to do to day | A |
| Don't know what to do to day | A |
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| There's my fine new rocking horse | J |
| Long of tail and dapple gray | A |
| I might ride on him of course | J |
| But my new velocipede | A |
| What would it do then or what | A |
| Would that 'fiery untamed steed ' | - |
| That I almost had forgot | A |
| Hobbyhorse just think or say | A |
| Don't know what to do to day | A |
| Don't know what to do to day | A |
| - | |
| But I know what I could do | A |
| I could make my donkey bray | A |
| By just twisting round a screw | A |
| In his stomach and that's all | K |
| I might make my rooster crow | I |
| And my big mechanical doll | L |
| Play his music box and oh | I |
| I could make my old hen lay | A |
| That's what I could do to day | A |
| 'Don't know what to do to day ' | - |
| - | |
| Mother says 'Well I suppose | M |
| Better put your toys away | A |
| You've too many heaven knows | M |
| Don't know what Old Santa meant | A |
| Bringing you a toy store You | A |
| Have too much that's evident | A |
| Give some to those children who | A |
| Have n't toys with which to play | A |
| That's what you could do to day | A |
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| 'Don't know what to do to day | A |
| That's just what you could do take | N |
| Lot of these new toys you say | A |
| You won't play with and just make | N |
| Christmas visits to the poor | O |
| Little boys and girls Old Kris | P |
| Skipped just made his old sleigh soar | F |
| O'er their chimneys seemed to miss | P |
| Every one along his way | A |
| That's what you could do to day ' | - |
| That's what I could do to day | A |
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| Then I helped her put some things | Q |
| Toys and cakes and fruit away | A |
| Parceled up and wrapped with strings | Q |
| In a basket Then we went | A |
| And it was a lot of fun | R |
| To an alley tenement | A |
| Made them happy every one | R |
| It was better than a play | A |
| That was what I did to day | A |
Madison Julius Cawein
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