The Joy Of Incompleteness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEE BGBGBHBHBBBB BIBIBBBBIHIH| If all our life were one broad glare | A |
| Of sunlight clear unclouded | B |
| If all our path were smooth and fair | A |
| By no soft gloom enshrouded | B |
| If all life's flowers were fully blown | C |
| Without the sweet unfolding | D |
| And happiness were rudely thrown | C |
| On hands too weak for holding | D |
| Should we not miss the twilight hours | E |
| The gentle haze and sadness | F |
| Should we not long for storms and showers | E |
| To break the constant gladness | E |
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| If none were sick and none were sad | B |
| What service could we render | G |
| I think if we were always glad | B |
| We scarcely could be tender | G |
| Did our beloved never need | B |
| Our patient ministration | H |
| Earth would grow cold and miss indeed | B |
| Its sweetest consolation | H |
| If sorrow never claimed our heart | B |
| And every wish were granted | B |
| Patience would die and hope depart | B |
| Life would be disenchanted | B |
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| And yet in heaven is no more night | B |
| In heaven is no more sorrow | I |
| Such unimagined new delight | B |
| Fresh grace from pain will borrow | I |
| As the poor seed that underground | B |
| Seeks its true life above it | B |
| Not knowing what will there be found | B |
| When sunbeams kiss and love it | B |
| So we in darkness upward grow | I |
| And look and long for heaven | H |
| But cannot picture it below | I |
| Till more of light be given | H |
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