Mistakes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG AIJA| God sent us here to make mistakes | A |
| To strive to fail to re begin | B |
| To taste the tempting fruit of sin | B |
| And find what bitter food it makes | A |
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| To miss the path to go astray | C |
| To wander blindly in the night | D |
| But searching praying for the light | D |
| Until at last we find the way | C |
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| And looking back along the past | E |
| We know we needed all the strain | F |
| Of fear and doubt and strife and pain | F |
| To make us value peace at last | E |
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| Who fails finds later triumph sweet | G |
| Who stumbles once walks then with care | H |
| And knows the place to cry Beware | H |
| To other unaccustomed feet | G |
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| Through strife the slumbering soul awakes | A |
| We learn on error's troubled route | I |
| The truths we could not prize without | J |
| The sorrow of our sad mistakes | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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