Does It Pay? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF| If one poor burdened toiler o er life s road | A |
| Who meets us by the way | B |
| Goes on less conscious of his galling load | A |
| Then life indeed does pay | B |
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| If we can show the troubled heart the gain | C |
| That lies always in loss | D |
| Why then we too are paid for all the pain | C |
| Of bearing life s hard cross | D |
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| If some despondent soul to hope is stirred | E |
| Some sad lip made to smile | F |
| By any act of ours or any word | E |
| Then life has been worth while | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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