When We Understand The Plan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEFGG HHIIJJ KKLLMM NNOOPQ| I reckon when the world we leave | A |
| And cease to smile and cease to grieve | A |
| When each of us shall quit the strife | B |
| And drop the working tools of life | B |
| Somewhere somehow we'll come to find | C |
| Just what our Maker had in mind | C |
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| Perhaps through clearer eyes than these | D |
| We'll read life's hidden mysteries | D |
| And learn the reason for our tears | E |
| Why sometimes came unhappy years | F |
| And why our dearest joys were brief | G |
| And bound so closely unto grief | G |
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| There is so much beyond our scope | H |
| As blindly on through life we grope | H |
| So much we cannot understand | I |
| However wisely we have planned | I |
| That all who walk this earth about | J |
| Are constantly beset by doubt | J |
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| No one of us can truly say | K |
| Why loved ones must be called away | K |
| Why hearts are hurt or e'en explain | L |
| Why some must suffer years of pain | L |
| Yet some day all of us shall know | M |
| The reason why these things are so | M |
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| I reckon in the years to come | N |
| When these poor lips of clay are dumb | N |
| And these poor hands have ceased to toil | O |
| Somewhere upon a fairer soil | O |
| God shall to all of us make clear | P |
| The purpose of our trials here | Q |
Edgar Albert Guest
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