Be Glad Your Nose Is On Your Face

Be glad your nose is on your face,

not pasted on some other place,

for if it were where it is not,

you might dislike your nose a lot.

Imagine if your precious nose

were sandwiched in between your toes,

that clearly would not be a treat,

for you’d be forced to smell your feet.

Your nose would be a source of dread

were it attached atop your head,

it soon would drive you to despair,

forever tickled by your hair.

Within your ear, your nose would be

an absolute catastrophe,

for when you were obliged to sneeze,

your brain would rattle from the breeze.

Your nose, instead, through thick and thin,

remains between your eyes and chin,

not pasted on some other place–

be glad your nose is on your face!

    -Jack Prelutsky

Figures of Speech

Alliteration:

not   pasted on some other place – P

for   if it were where it is not – W

you might dislike your nose a   lot – Y

for you’d be forced to smell   your feet – F

it   soon would drive you to despair – D

for   when you were obliged to sneeze – W

your   brain would rattle from the breeze – B

Your   nose, instead, through thick and thin – t

Repetition:

Within   your ear, your nose would be

Your nose, instead, through thick and   thin,

remains   between your eyes and chin

Rhyme

aabb – Face, pace; not, lot; nose,   toes; treat, feet; dread, head; despair, hair; be, catastrophe; sneez, breez;   thin, chin; place, face;