Happiness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACADAD EFEFGHGI IIIIACAC| If he sunbeams will not start you to rejoicing | A |
| If the laughter of your babies you can hear | B |
| Without little songs of gladness gayly voicing | A |
| If their dancing doesn't drive away your tear | C |
| If you don't find happiness where they are playing | A |
| If they do not make your pathways bright and sunny | D |
| Then gladness from your heart has gone a straying | A |
| And you won't be any happier with money | D |
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| If the blue skies bending over you don't thrill you | E |
| If the roses just a bursting into bloom | F |
| With a sense of perfect pleasure do not fill you | E |
| If the song birds do not chase away your gloom | F |
| If you cannot find contentment in your cottage | G |
| Then your heart for joy has not become a chalice | H |
| If you cannot smiling eat your simple pottage | G |
| Then you'd not be any happier in a palace | I |
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| If a troop of healthy laughing boys and lassies | I |
| Doesn't strike you as a reason to rejoice | I |
| If the glories of the earth when winter passes | I |
| You behold and still retain a whining voice | I |
| If it doesn't rouse your spirits to go fishing | A |
| Then your heart is but a cupboard for despair | C |
| And for money all in vain today you're wishing | A |
| You'd make a most unhappy millionaire | C |
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