Nothing To Do Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDAAA EAEFGFGAAA HAHIBIBAAA JAJAA AAAA AAAKILIAA MAMAAAAAA ANANOPFPA A QAQARARAADon'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 |
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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 ' | - |
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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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