Improvement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEAAFFGGHHII JJKK| The joy of life is living it or so it seems to me | A |
| In finding shackles on your wrists then struggling till you're free | A |
| In seeing wrongs and righting them in dreaming splendid dreams | B |
| Then toiling till the vision is as real as moving streams | B |
| The happiest mortal on the earth is he who ends his day | C |
| By leaving better than he found to bloom along the way | C |
| Were all things perfect here there would be naught for man to do | D |
| If what is old were good enough we'd never need the new | D |
| The only happy time of rest is that which follows strife | E |
| And sees some contribution made unto the joy of life | E |
| And he who has oppression felt and conquered it is he | A |
| Who really knows the happiness and peace of being free | A |
| The miseries of earth are here and with them all must cope | F |
| Who seeks for joy through hedges thick of care and pain must grope | F |
| Through disappointment man must go to value pleasure's thrill | G |
| To really know the joy of health a man must first be ill | G |
| The wrongs are here for man to right and happiness is had | H |
| By striving to supplant with good the evil and the bad | H |
| The joy of life is living it and doing things of worth | I |
| In making bright and fruitful all the barren spots of earth | I |
| In facing odds and mastering them and rising from defeat | J |
| And making true what once was false and what was bitter sweet | J |
| For only he knows perfect joy whose little bit of soil | K |
| Is richer ground than what it was when he began to toil | K |
Edgar Albert Guest
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