Give Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DEDE FGFG| Live and thou shalt receive Give thoughts of cheer | A |
| Of courage and success to friend and stranger | B |
| And from a thousand sources far and near | A |
| Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger | B |
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| Give words of comfort of defence and hope | C |
| To mortals crushed by sorrow and by error | B |
| And though thy feet through shadowy paths may grope | C |
| Thou shalt not walk in loneliness or terror | B |
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| Give of thy gold though small thy portion be | D |
| Gold rusts and shrivels in the hand that keeps it | E |
| It grows in one that opens wide and free | D |
| Who sows his harvest is the one who reaps it | E |
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| Give of thy love nor wait to know the worth | F |
| Of what thou lovest and ask no returning | G |
| And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth | F |
| There thou shalt find the lamp of love light burning | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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