Winter Complaint Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACDCDEFGFBHFICJKJ CLMLMHCH AAFABCCCGNONCCCCPLCL QCCCRRCR GKKKCKRK| Now when I have a cold | A |
| I am careful with my cold | A |
| I consult a physician | B |
| And I do as I am told | A |
| I muffle up my torso | C |
| In woolly woolly garb | D |
| And I quaff great flagons | C |
| Of sodium bicarb | D |
| I munch on aspirin | E |
| I lunch on water | F |
| And I wouldn t dream of osculating | G |
| Anybody s daughter | F |
| And to anybody s son | B |
| I wouldn t say howdy | H |
| For I am a sufferer | F |
| Magna cum laude | I |
| I don t like germs | C |
| But I ll keep the germs I ve got | J |
| Will I take a chance of spreading them | K |
| Definitely not | J |
| I sneeze out the window | C |
| And I cough up the flue | L |
| And I live like a hermit | M |
| Till the germs get through | L |
| And because I m considerate | M |
| Because I m wary | H |
| I am treated by my friends | C |
| Like Typhoid Mary | H |
| - | |
| Now when you have a cold | A |
| You are careless with your cold | A |
| You are cocky as a gangster | F |
| Who has just been paroled | A |
| You ignore your physician | B |
| You eat steaks and oxtails | C |
| You stuff yourself with starches | C |
| You drink lots of cocktails | C |
| And you claim that gargling | G |
| Is a time of waste | N |
| And you won t take soda | O |
| For you don t like the taste | N |
| And you prowl around parties | C |
| Full of selfish bliss | C |
| And greet your hostess | C |
| With a genial kiss | C |
| You convert yourself | P |
| Into a deadly missle | L |
| You exhale Hello s | C |
| Like a steamboat wistle | L |
| You sneeze in the subway | Q |
| And you cough at dances | C |
| And let everybody else | C |
| Take their own good chances | C |
| You re a bronchial boor | R |
| A bacterial blighter | R |
| And you get more invitations | C |
| Than a gossip writer | R |
| - | |
| Yes your throat is froggy | G |
| And your eyes are swimmy | K |
| And you hand is clammy | K |
| And you nose is brimmy | K |
| But you woo my girls | C |
| And their hearts you jimmy | K |
| While I sit here | R |
| With the cold you gimmy | K |
Ogden Nash
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