Be Glad your Nose is on Your Face by Jack Prelutsky

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!

 Analysis

    When I was studying the poem the one word I thought that we should know was obliged which means to require. The poem is literally about your nose being on your face and how you should be glad its not some other place. The author uses personification: Your brain will rattle from the breeze; Imagery: sandwiched between your toes; and Metaphor: he uses metaphor throughout the whole poem saying that your nose is in different places. Jack utilizes the following sound devices: alliteration: through, thick, and thin; Rhyme: face, place; and assance: were, where. The poem’s stanza is 5, 4 line. Rhyme scheme is aa, bb. The meter is tetrameter. The speaker of the poem could be the poet. There really isn’t any reason it could or couldn’t be. The shift occurs right before the last stanza. I know this because the first four stanzas are about your nose being some where it shouldn’t be. The last stanza is where he is telling you about what your nose is. The tone of this poem is thankful. Some clues of the tone and r: through thick and thin and glad. I interpreted the theme as you should be thankful for what you have and do not try and change it because it could go wrong. When he talked about putting your nose other places and through, thick, and thin helped me come to this conclusion.