Happiness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJB AFKLMNOF POQB ARHO NSA B A| There are so many little things that make life beautiful | A |
| I can recall a day in early youth when I was longing for happiness | B |
| Toward the western hills I gazed watching for its approach | C |
| The hills lay between me and the setting sun and over them led a highway | D |
| When some traveller crossed the hill always a fine grey dust rose cloudless against the sky | E |
| The traveller I could not distinguish but the dust cloud I could see | F |
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| And the dust cloud seemed formed of hopes and possibilities each speck an embryo event | G |
| At sunset when the skies were fair the dust cloud grew radiant and shone with visions | H |
| The happiness for which I waited came not to me adown that western slope | I |
| But now I can recall the cloud of golden dust the sunset and the highway leading over the hill | J |
| The wonderful hope and expectancy of my heart the visions of youth in my eyes and I know this was happiness | B |
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| There are so many little things that make life beautiful | A |
| I can recall another day when I rebelled at life's monotony | F |
| Everywhere about me was the commonplace and nothing seemed to happen | K |
| Each day was like its yesterday and to morrow gave no promise of change | L |
| My young heart rose rebellious in my breast and I ran aimlessly into the sunlight the glowing sunlight of June | M |
| I sent out a dumb cry to Fate demanding larger joys and more delight | N |
| I ran blindly into a field of blooming clover | O |
| It was breast high and billowed about me like rose red waves of a fragrant sea | F |
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| The bees were singing above it and their little brown bodies were loaded with honey dew extracted from the clover blossoms | P |
| The sun reeled in the heavens dizzy with its own splendour | O |
| The day went into night without bringing any new event to change my life | Q |
| But now I recall the field of blooming clover and the honey laden bees the glorious June sunlight and the passion of youth in my heart and I know that was happiness | B |
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| There are so many little things that make life beautiful | A |
| Yesterday a failure stared me in the face where I had thought to welcome proud success | R |
| There was no radiant cloud of dust against the western sky and no clover field lying fragrant under mid June suns | H |
| Neither was youth with me any more | O |
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| But under the vines that clung against my walls a flock of birds sought shelter just at twilight | N |
| And standing at my casement I could hear the twitter of their voices and the soft sweet flutter of their wings | S |
| Then over me there fell a sense of peace and calm and love for all created things and trust illimitable | A |
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| And that I knew was happiness | B |
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| There are so many little things to make life beautiful | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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