A Good World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCCC CDCDEFEF CGCGHCHC CICIFFFF| sorrow | A |
| A world where friends are givin' in | B |
| To cheer us till tomorrow | A |
| A world where folks come forward when | C |
| They see our feet are slippin' | C |
| To help us till we come again | C |
| To where the honey's drippin' | C |
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| I reckon that we'd never know | C |
| How kind an' good our friends are | D |
| If trouble's face should never show | C |
| Off yonder where the bends are | D |
| If sudden like there never came | E |
| A rain to drench a feller | F |
| We'd miss the friend who made us claim | E |
| A share of his umbreller | F |
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| If never came to us a woe | C |
| That seemed we couldn't bear it | G |
| We'd never positively know | C |
| Which friend would rush to share it | G |
| We'd miss a heap of sweetness too | H |
| That we could never borrow | C |
| A sweetness no one ever knew | H |
| Save it was born of sorrow | C |
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| This thought old care has driven in | C |
| An' grief an' trouble taught me | I |
| It's a good old world we're livin' in | C |
| Despite the woes it's brought me | I |
| For had I never shed a tear | F |
| Nor known what sorrow's rends are | F |
| I never would have learned down here | F |
| How kind an' good my friends are | F |
Edgar Albert Guest
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