Behold The Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFCCGHIJCCDKLMN| Behold the earth swung in among the stars | A |
| Fit home for gods if men were only kind | B |
| Do thou thy part to shape it to those ends | C |
| By shaping thine own life to perfectness | C |
| Seek nothing for thyself or thine own kin | D |
| That robs another of one hope or joy | E |
| Let no man toil in poverty and pain | F |
| To give thee unearned luxury and ease | C |
| Feed not the hungry servitor with stones | C |
| That idle guests may fatten on thy bread | G |
| Look for the good in stranger and in foe | H |
| Nor save thy praises for the cherished few | I |
| And let the weakest sinner find in thee | J |
| An impetus to reach receding heights | C |
| Behold the earth swung in among the stars | C |
| Fit home for gods wake thou the God within | D |
| And by the broad example of thy love | K |
| Communicate Omnipotence to men | L |
| All men are unawakened gods be thine | M |
| The voice to rouse them from unhappy sleep | N |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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