Whatif
By Shel Silverstien
Last night, while I lay thinking here, some Whatifs crawled inside my ear and pranced and partied all night long and sang their same old Whatif song: Whatif I'm dumb in school? Whatif they've closed the swimming pool? Whatif I get beat up? Whatif there's poison in my cup? Whatif I start to cry? Whatif I get sick and die? Whatif I flunk that test? Whatif green hair grows on my chest? Whatif nobody likes me? Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me? Whatif I don't grow taller? Whatif my head starts getting smaller? Whatif the fish won't bite? Whatif the wind tears up my kite? Whatif they start a war? Whatif my parents get divorced? Whatif the bus is late? Whatif my teeth don't grow in straight? Whatif I tear my pants? Whatif I never learn to dance? Everything seems well, and then the nighttime Whatifs strike again!
Rhyme
Taller and smaller are a rhyme.
Personification
The Whatifs Climb inside his ear and prance and partied.
Repetition
Whatif copies its self more than once.
The meaning of the poem
The whatifs came to his mind and all those thoughts in his mind might of gave him a nightmare.
Shel Silverstein
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Whatif
By Shel Silverstein.
Falling Up
Whatif is in this book.