Real Lessons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGCGC GHGIEJEJ AKAKCLCL| These are the lessons I would learn | A |
| Not how to climb above all men | B |
| Not how the greatest sums to earn | A |
| Not how to wield a master pen | B |
| But I would learn how I can be | C |
| A little kinder than before | D |
| How I can live more patiently | C |
| And help my friends a little more | D |
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| And I would learn to better show | E |
| My gratitude for favors had | F |
| To see more of the good below | E |
| And less of what I think is bad | F |
| To live not always in the day | G |
| To come and count the joys to be | C |
| But to remember as I stray | G |
| The past and what it brought to me | C |
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| To judge my life not from today | G |
| Nor what tomorrow it may mean | H |
| But from each footstep of the way | G |
| And from each pleasure that has been | I |
| Remembering in each present woe | E |
| The love and laughter I have known | J |
| And to be grateful as I go | E |
| For joys that once I called my own | J |
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| These are lessons I would learn | A |
| To be as brave in grief and care | K |
| As I am when it is my turn | A |
| To tread the road where all is fair | K |
| More grateful I would learn to be | C |
| For what has been as on I tread | L |
| And to press forward cheerfully | C |
| Content to face what lies ahead | L |
Edgar Albert Guest
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