Insight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL| On the river of life as I float along | A |
| I see with the spirit's sight | B |
| That many a nauseous weed of wrong | A |
| Has root in a seed of right | B |
| For evil is good that has gone astray | C |
| And sorrow is only blindness | D |
| And the world is always under the sway | C |
| Of a changeless law of kindness | D |
| - | |
| The commonest error a truth can make | E |
| Is shouting its sweet voice hoarse | F |
| And sin is only the soul's mistake | E |
| In misdirecting its force | F |
| And love the fairest of all fair things | G |
| That ever to man descended | H |
| Grows rank with nettles and poisonous things | G |
| Unless it is watched and tended | H |
| - | |
| There could not be anything better than this | I |
| Old world in the way it began | J |
| And though some matters have gone amiss | I |
| From the great original plan | J |
| And however dark the skies may appear | K |
| And however souls may blunder | L |
| I tell you it all will work out clear | K |
| For good lies over and under | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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