Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
If I’d known, I was paving the way
To cavities, caps and decay,
The murder of fillin’s
Injections and drillin’s,
I’d have thrown all me sherbet away.
Paraphrase: The poet regrets if she had known it before (that by eating lollies, candies and sweets) that she had been preparing the way for cavities, caps and tooth decay and suffer the fillings, injections and drilling machines in the future, she would have thrown all those sweets away.
(a) Did she have any idea that she was paving the way for cavities, caps and decay?
(b) What would she have done if she had known that sweets and candies would do her harm?
(c) What is the rhyme scheme used in the above lines?
(a) No, she didn’t have any idea that she was paving way for cavities, caps and decay by eating sweets and candies.
(b) She would have thrown all the sweets and candies if she had known that they would do her a lot of harm.
(c) The rhyme-scheme of the lines is: aa, bb, a.