The same cannot be said of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If.” “If” is one long, 294-word sentence, 273 of which are conditional clauses. If you can keep your head, trust yourself, dream, think, etc., then you can finally get to the main verb on the 31st line, and then “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it / And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!”
