Advice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFH IDID JKJK LELE MNMN ICICI must do as you do Your way I own | A |
Is a very good way and still | B |
There are sometimes two straight roads to a town | C |
One over one under the hill | B |
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You are treading the safe and the well worn way | D |
That the prudent choose each time | E |
And you think me reckless and rash to day | D |
Because I prefer to climb | E |
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Your path is the right one and so is mine | F |
We are not like peas in a pod | G |
Compelled to lie in a certain line | F |
Or else be scattered abroad | H |
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'T were a dull old world methinks my friend | I |
If we all just went one way | D |
Yet our paths will meet no doubt at the end | I |
Though they lead apart today | D |
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You like the shade and I like the sun | J |
You like an even pace | K |
I like to mix with the crowd and run | J |
And then rest after the race | K |
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I like danger and storm and strife | L |
You like a peaceful time | E |
I like the passion and surge of life | L |
You like its gentle rhyme | E |
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You like buttercups dewy sweet | M |
And crocuses framed in snow | N |
I like roses born of the heat | M |
And the red carnation's glow | N |
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I must live my life not yours my friend | I |
For so it was written down | C |
We must follow our given paths to the end | I |
But I trust we shall meet in town | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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