Mission Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK| If you are sighing for a lofty work | A |
| If great ambitions dominate your mind | B |
| Just watch yourself and see you do not shirk | A |
| The common little ways of being kind | B |
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| If you are dreaming of a future goal | C |
| When crowned with glory men shall own your power | D |
| Be careful that you let no struggling soul | C |
| Go by unaided in the present hour | D |
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| If you are moved to pity for the earth | E |
| And long to aid it do not look so high | F |
| You pass some poor dumb creature faint with thirst | G |
| All life is equal in the eternal eye | F |
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| If you would help to make the wrong things right | H |
| Begin at home there lies a lifetime's toil | I |
| Weed your own garden fair for all men's sight | H |
| Before you plan to till another's soil | I |
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| God chooses His own leaders in the world | J |
| And from the rest He asks but willing hands | K |
| As mighty mountains into place are hurled | J |
| While patient tides may only shape the sands | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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