A Wish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKLK MKNKOPKP QKDKREEE| Great dignity ever attends great grief | A |
| And silently walks beside it | B |
| And I always know when I see such woe | C |
| That Invisible Helpers guide it | B |
| And I know deep sorrow is like a tide | D |
| It cannot ever be flowing | E |
| The high water mark in the night and the dark | F |
| Then dawn and the outward going | E |
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| But the people who pull at my heart strings hard | G |
| Are the ones whom destiny hurries | H |
| Through commonplace ways to the end of their days | I |
| And pesters with paltry worries | H |
| The peddlers who trudge with a budget of wares | J |
| To the door that is slammed unkindly | K |
| The vendor who stands with his shop in his hands | L |
| Where the hastening hosts pass blindly | K |
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| The woman who holds in her poor flat purse | M |
| The price of her rent room only | K |
| While her starved eye feeds on the comfort she needs | N |
| To brighten the lot that is lonely | K |
| The man in the desert of endless work | O |
| Unsoftened by islands of leisure | P |
| And the children who toil in the dust and the soil | K |
| While their little hearts cry for pleasure | P |
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| The people who labour and scrimp and save | Q |
| At the call of some thankless duty | K |
| And carefully hide with a mien of pride | D |
| Their ravening hunger for beauty | K |
| These ask no pity and seek no aid | R |
| But the thought of them somehow is haunting | E |
| And I wish I might fling at their feet everything | E |
| That I know in their hearts they are wanting | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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