Content And Happiness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCABBC DEFDEF| How is it that men pray their earthly lot | A |
| May be 'content and happiness' Dire foes | B |
| Without one common trait which kinship shows | B |
| I hold these two Contentment comes when sought | C |
| While Happiness pursued was never caught | A |
| But sudden storms the heart with mighty throes | B |
| Whenceforth mild eyed Content affrighted goes | B |
| To seek some calmer heart less danger fraught | C |
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| Bold Happiness knows but one rival Fear | D |
| Who follows ever on his footsteps sent | E |
| By jealous Fate who calls great joy a crime | F |
| While in far ways 'mong leaves just turning sere | D |
| With gaze serene and placid walks Content | E |
| No heart ere held these two guests at one time | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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