Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth,
And spotted the perils beneath.
All the toffees I chewed,
And the sweet sticky food,
Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth.
Paraphrase: The poet wishes she had cared for her teeth. If she had done so, she would have spotted or located the dangers that cropped up below them. All this was the result of chewing toffees and eating sweet sticky food. She would have avoided them. She again wishes she’d looked after her teeth.
(a) What does the poet wish and why?
(b) What was the effect of all the toffees she chewed and the sticky sweet food she ate?
(c) What is the rhyme scheme of the given lines?
(a) The poet wishes if she had cared for her teeth and spotted the dangers that cropped up below them.
(b) The effect of chewing toffees and eating sweet sticky food was quite disastrous on her teeth. She suffered from various ailments of the teeth.
(c) The rhyme scheme of the given lines is aa, bb, a.