Trouble Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDD EEBBFF AAGHII AAJJBC AAAADD| Trouble is an exerciser | A |
| Sent us by a Wisdom wiser | A |
| Than the mind of man possesses | B |
| Doubts and dangers and distresses | C |
| Come not purposely to best us | D |
| But to strengthen us and test us | D |
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| He who never gets In tussles | E |
| Soon has soft and flabby muscles | E |
| He who fearing hurts and bruises | B |
| Guards his strength grows weak and loses | B |
| All the power he thought to nourish | F |
| Strong men by their trials flourish | F |
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| Never was a stately figure | A |
| But by trouble was made bigger | A |
| Cares a man has borne and still bears | G |
| Trove how much he can and will bear | H |
| He Is strongest of your neighbors | I |
| Who performs the heaviest labors | I |
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| Not from easy ways and tender | A |
| Brilliant minds receive their splendor | A |
| But from problems deep perplexing | J |
| And from solving questions vexing | J |
| Nightly pondering wisdom's pages | B |
| Comes the luster of the sages | C |
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| Trouble is an exerciser | A |
| Sent to make us stronger wiser | A |
| Sent to make us bigger better | A |
| It Is not a chain or fetter | A |
| Or a snare or trap to best us | D |
| It is Just life's way to test us | D |
Edgar Albert Guest
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