Life's Harmonies Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF| Let no man pray that he know not sorrow | A |
| Let no soul ask to be free from pain | B |
| For the gall of to day is the sweet of to morrow | A |
| And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain | B |
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| Through want of a thing does its worth redouble | C |
| Through hunger's pangs does the feast content | D |
| And only the heart that has harbored trouble | C |
| Can fully rejoice when joy is sent | D |
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| Let no man shrink from the bitter tonics | E |
| Of grief and yearning and need and strife | F |
| For the rarest chords in the soul's harmonies | G |
| Are found in the minor strains of life | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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