A Suggestion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCDC EEFCGGDC CCDCCCHC| A | |
| If in spite of all your grouches | B |
| Troubles on you have kept piling | C |
| If regardless of your kicking | C |
| And your cussing they're still sticking | C |
| Why not switch your tactics mister | D |
| And try smiling | C |
| - | |
| If your frowning will not chase 'em | E |
| Why not grin a bit and face 'em | E |
| If your worries seem to like it | F |
| When your meanness they are riling | C |
| If your gloomy disposition | G |
| Doesn't better your condition | G |
| Why not switch your methods mister | D |
| And try smiling | C |
| - | |
| If your constant whining swearing | C |
| Do not better your wayfaring | C |
| If you find your foes no kinder | D |
| After them you've been reviling | C |
| If they keep right on assailing | C |
| Quite regardless of your wailing | C |
| Why not switch your style of warfare | H |
| And try smiling | C |
Edgar Albert Guest
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