The Benefit Of Trouble Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHAA| IF LIFE were rosy and skies were blue | A |
| And never a cloud appeared | B |
| If every heart that you loved proved true | A |
| And never a friendship seared | B |
| If there were no troubles to fret your soul | C |
| You never would struggle to gain your goal | C |
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| It 'a trouble that makes you and proves your worth | D |
| It's trouble that spurs you to better things | E |
| It isn't the man with the joys of earth | D |
| Who courage and strength to his duty brings | E |
| But the man who bends 'neath a burden great | F |
| Is the man who wins in the fight with fate | F |
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| It's something to work for a debt to pay | G |
| A place to gain that a young man needs | H |
| The difficulties that line the way | G |
| Are really the mothers of splendid deeds | H |
| The man with something he hopes to do | A |
| Is the man who toils with a purpose true | A |
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