How Is It? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFGHII JKCK LMNOP CQRS ABCB| You who are loudly crying out for peace | A |
| You who are wanting love to vanquish hate | B |
| How is it in the four walls of your home | C |
| The while you wait | B |
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| Do those who form your household welcome your approach in the morning | D |
| As the earth welcomes the presence of dawn | E |
| Or do they dread your coming lest you censure and complain | F |
| Do you begin the day with praise to God for each blessing you possess and do you speak frequent words of commendation to those about you | G |
| Do those you claim to love often hear you talking in love's language | H |
| Or is your softest tone and your sweetest speech saved for the sometime guest | I |
| While the harsh voice and the sharp retort are used with those you love the best | I |
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| You who are praying for the Christ's return | J |
| And for the coming of the Promised Day | K |
| How is it in the four walls of your home | C |
| The while you pray | K |
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| Are you trying to make your home a reflection of what you believe heaven will be | L |
| Unless you are you will never find heaven anywhere | M |
| The foundations of our heavenly mansions must first be built on earth | N |
| Unless you are striving to put in use some of the angelic virtues here and now | O |
| No angelhood will be accorded you hereafter | P |
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| Unless you are illustrating your desire for peace by a peaceful love ruled home | C |
| You have no right to clamour for a cessation of hostilities among nations | Q |
| Nations are only chains of individuals | R |
| When each individual expresses nothing but love and peace in his daily life there will be no more war | S |
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| You who are loudly crying out for peace | A |
| You who are wanting love to vanquish hate | B |
| How is it in the four walls of your home | C |
| The while you wait | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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