The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFGGBB FFHHII| The world is world of ups and downs | A |
| A world of smiles and frowns | A |
| The sunshine followed the rain | B |
| And pleasures cometh in the tracks of pain | B |
| There's joy that succeeded sorrow | C |
| Tho cloudy today 'twill be sunny tomorrow | C |
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| Spring cometh in the path of Winter | D |
| And spring into summer doth enter | D |
| Dawn cometh after night | E |
| And darkness gives place to light | E |
| So don't worry my dear | F |
| If thy life be drear | F |
| For 'tis a long lane that hath no turning | G |
| Thy grief is only a school for learning | G |
| To appreciate the joy that cometh after pain | B |
| And value more greatly the sunshine after rain | B |
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| And all the grief and all the sorrow | F |
| We shall forget in the bright tomorrow | F |
| We shall wonder why we cried | H |
| And laugh where once we sighed | H |
| When cometh the happy day | I |
| When grief and pain shall pass away | I |
Clark Ashton Smith
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