A Toast To Happiness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCBDDBEF GHGHCCIJJIKK LMNMGGOPPOQR SMSMTTMUUMFE| To happiness I raise my glass | A |
| The goal of every human | B |
| The hope of every clan and class | A |
| And every man and woman | B |
| The daydreams of the urchin there | C |
| The sweet theme of the maiden's prayer | C |
| The strong man's one ambition | B |
| The sacred prize of mothers sweet | D |
| The tramp of soldiers on the street | D |
| Have all the selfsame mission | B |
| Life here is nothing more or less | E |
| Than just a quest for happiness | F |
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| Some seek it on the mountain top | G |
| And some within a mine | H |
| The widow in her notion shop | G |
| Expects its sun to shine | H |
| The tramp that seeks new roads to fare | C |
| Is one with king and millionaire | C |
| In this that each is groping | I |
| On different roads in different ways | J |
| To come to glad contented days | J |
| And shares the common hoping | I |
| The sound of martial fife and drum | K |
| Is born of happiness to come | K |
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| Yet happiness is always here | L |
| Had we the eyes to see it | M |
| No breast but holds a fund of cheer | N |
| Had man the will to free it | M |
| 'Tis there upon the mountain top | G |
| Or in the widow's notion shop | G |
| 'Tis found in homes of sorrow | O |
| 'Tis woven in the memories | P |
| Of happier brighter days than these | P |
| The gift not of to morrow | O |
| But of to day and in our tears | Q |
| Some touch of happiness appears | R |
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| 'Tis not a joy that's born of wealth | S |
| The poor man may possess it | M |
| 'Tis not alone the prize of health | S |
| No sickness can repress it | M |
| 'Tis not the end of mortal strife | T |
| The sunset of the day of life | T |
| Or but the old should find it | M |
| It is the bond twixt God and man | U |
| The touch divine in all we plan | U |
| And has the soul behind it | M |
| And so this toast to happiness | F |
| The seed of which we all possess | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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