I Didn't Think Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG HIJIKEL I CMNEOE PMPMAEE BQBQRES| If all the troubles in the world | A |
| Were traced back to their start | B |
| We'd find not one in ten begun | C |
| From want of willing heart | B |
| But there's a sly woe working elf | D |
| Who lurks about youth's brink | E |
| And sure dismay he brings alway | F |
| The elf 'I didn't think ' | G |
| - | |
| He seems so sorry when he's caught | H |
| His mien is all contrite | I |
| He so regrets the woe he wrought | J |
| And wants to make things right | I |
| But wishes do not heal a wound | K |
| Or weld a broken link | E |
| The heart aches on the link is gone | L |
| All through 'I didn't think ' | - |
| - | |
| I half believe that ugly sprite | I |
| Bold wicked 'I don't care ' | - |
| In life's long run less harm has done | C |
| Because he is so rare | M |
| And one can be so stern with him | N |
| Can make the monster shrink | E |
| But lack a day what can we say | O |
| To whining 'Didn't think' | E |
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| This most unpleasant imp of strife | P |
| Pursues us everywhere | M |
| There's scarcely one whole day of life | P |
| He does not cause us care | M |
| Small woes and great he brings the world | A |
| Strong ships are forced to sink | E |
| And trains from iron track are hurled alack | E |
| By stupid 'Didn't think ' | - |
| - | |
| When brain is comrade to the heart | B |
| And heart from soul draws grace | Q |
| 'I didn't think will quick depart | B |
| For lack of resting place | Q |
| If from that great unselfish stream | R |
| The Golden Rule we drink | E |
| We'll keep God's laws and have no cause | S |
| To say 'I didn't think ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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