As It Is Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACACDEDEAFAFGHGH IEIEJKJKLMLMDEDE| I might wish the world were better | A |
| I might sit around and sigh | B |
| For a water that is wetter | A |
| And a bluer sort of sky | B |
| There are times I think the weather | A |
| Could be much improved upon | C |
| But when taken altogether | A |
| It's a good old world we're on | C |
| I might tell how I would make it | D |
| But when I have had my say | E |
| It is still my job to take It | D |
| As it is from day to day | E |
| I might wish that men were kinder | A |
| And less eager after gold | F |
| I might wish that they were blinder | A |
| To the faults they now behold | F |
| And I'd try to make them gentle | G |
| And more tolerant in strife | H |
| And a bit more sentimental | G |
| O'er the finer things of life | H |
| But I am not here to make them | I |
| Or to work in human clay | E |
| It is just my work to take them | I |
| As they are from day to day | E |
| Here's a world that suffers sorrow | J |
| Here are bitterness and pain | K |
| And the joy we plan to morrow | J |
| May be ruined by the rain | K |
| Here are hate and greed and badness | L |
| Here are love and friendship too | M |
| But the most of it is gladness | L |
| When at last we've run it through | M |
| Could we only understand it | D |
| As we shall some distant day | E |
| We should see that He who planned it | D |
| Knew our needs along the way | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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