Be Kind When You Can Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH GIGI JKJK| Be kind when you can though the kindness be little | A |
| 'Tis small letters make up philosophers' scrolls | B |
| The crystal of Happiness vivid and brittle | A |
| Can seldom be cut into very large bowls | B |
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| 'Tis atoms that dwell in the measureless mountain | C |
| 'Tis moments that sum up the century's flight | D |
| 'Tis but drops that unite in Niagara's fountain | C |
| 'Tis rays single rays from the harvest sun light | D |
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| Stone by stone builds the temple that rises in glory | E |
| Inch by inch grows the child till maturity's prime | F |
| The jewels so famous in bright Eastern story | E |
| Have been nursed tint by tint in the blossom of Time | F |
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| 'Tis grains make the desert sheet trackless and spreading | G |
| 'Tis but petals that deck every blossom twinned spray | H |
| There are leaves only leaves where the forest is shedding | G |
| Its gloom till the density shuts out the day | H |
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| A word or a glance which we give 'without thinking' | G |
| May shadow or lighten some sensitive breast | I |
| And the draught from the well spring is wine in the drinking | G |
| If quaffed from the brim that Affection has blest | I |
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| Then be kind when you can in the smallest of duties | J |
| Don't wait for the larger expressions of Love | K |
| For the heart depends less for its joys and its beauties | J |
| On the flight of the Eagle than coo of the Dove | K |
Eliza Cook
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