Things Work Out Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGBBFF HHIICC| Because it rains when we wish it wouldn't | A |
| Because men do what they often shouldn't | A |
| Because crops fail and plans go wrong | B |
| Some of us grumble all day long | B |
| But somehow in spite of the care and doubt | C |
| It seems at last that things work out | C |
| - | |
| Because we lose where we hoped to gain | D |
| Because we suffer a little pain | D |
| Because we must work when we'd like to play | E |
| Some of us whimper along life's way | E |
| But somehow as day always follows the night | F |
| Most of our troubles work out all right | F |
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| Because we cannot forever smile | G |
| Because we must trudge in the dust awhile | G |
| Because we think that the way is long | B |
| Some of us whimper that life's all wrong | B |
| But somehow we live and our sky grows bright | F |
| And everything seems to work out all right | F |
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| So bend to your trouble and meet your care | H |
| For the clouds must break and the sky grow fair | H |
| Let the rain come down as it must and will | I |
| But keep on working and hoping still | I |
| For in spite of the grumblers who stand about | C |
| Somehow it seems all things work out | C |
Edgar Albert Guest
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