All For The Best Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEEFF BGGHHIIJJ KHHLLMMNNOO APKOOQQNN| Things mostly happen for the best | A |
| However hard it seems to day | B |
| When some fond plan has gone astray | B |
| Or what you've wished for most is lost | C |
| An' you sit countin' up the cost | D |
| With eyes half blind by tears o' grief | E |
| While doubt is chokin' out belief | E |
| You'll find when all is understood | F |
| That what seemed bad was really good | F |
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| Life can't be counted in a day | B |
| The present rain that will not stop | G |
| Next autumn means a bumper crop | G |
| We wonder why some things must be | H |
| Care's purpose we can seldom see | H |
| An' yet long afterwards we turn | I |
| To view the past an' then we learn | I |
| That what once filled our minds with doubt | J |
| Was good for us as it worked out | J |
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| I've never known an hour of care | K |
| But that I've later come to see | H |
| That it has brought some joy to me | H |
| Even the sorrows I have borne | L |
| Leavin' me lonely an' forlorn | L |
| An' hurt an' bruised an' sick at heart | M |
| In life's great plan have had a part | M |
| An' though I could not understand | N |
| Why I should bow to Death's command | N |
| As time went on I came to know | O |
| That it was really better so | O |
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| Things mostly happen for the best | A |
| So narrow is our vision here | P |
| That we are blinded by a tear | K |
| An' stunned by every hurt an' blow | O |
| Which comes to day to strike us low | O |
| An' yet some day we turn an' find | Q |
| That what seemed cruel once was kind | Q |
| Most things I hold are wisely planned | N |
| If we could only understand | N |
Edgar Albert Guest
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