If It Kills Me!



Do you get everything you want?
   You don't?--Well, I'll declare
That's strange; I have the same complaint.
   Perhaps it's not so rare.

The things we don't want come to us,
   In bunches, every day;
But, when we really like a thing,
   It seems to stay away.

We hope and wish and pray and cry
   And scheme and work and plan;
While our desires remain beyond
   The reach of mortal man.

So, after years of fruitless hopes,
   I think I'll cease to fret;
And when I don't get the things I like--
  I'll like the things I get!
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Submitted on March 21, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 510
Words 98
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

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