Our Little Needs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGCC HHFF| A LITTLE more of loving a little less of pain | A |
| A little more of sunshine a little less of rain | A |
| A little more of friendship a little less of strife | B |
| These are what we 're wanting to make the perfect life | B |
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| A little more of laughter and fewer fewer sighs | C |
| A little more of twinkling than sorrow in our eyes | C |
| A little more forbearance a little less of hate | D |
| A little more of patience less quarreling with Fate | D |
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| A little more of kindness a little less severe | E |
| A little more of sweetness a little less austere | E |
| A little more of honor and less of business greed | F |
| See brother see how little it is we really need | F |
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| A little more of silence and less of hasty speech | G |
| A little more of practice and less desire to preach | G |
| A little more of smiling with fewer drooping chins | C |
| A little more of virtues with fewer petty sins | C |
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| A little more of praising a little less of blame | H |
| More thought for all our loved ones and less for future fame | H |
| A little more of doing than talking of the deed | F |
| See brother see how little it is we really need | F |
Edgar Albert Guest
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