Our Blessings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE CGHGIJKJ LMNMOPDP DQRQKSKS| Sitting to day in the sunshine | A |
| That touched me with fingers of love | B |
| I thought of the manifold blessings | C |
| God scatters on earth from above | B |
| And they seemed as I numbered them over | D |
| Far more than we merit or need | E |
| And all that we lack is the angels | F |
| To make earth a heaven indeed | E |
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| The winter brings long pleasant evenings | C |
| The spring brings a promise of flowers | G |
| That summer breathes to fruition | H |
| And autumn brings glad golden hours | G |
| The woodlands re echo with music | I |
| The moonbeams ensilver the sea | J |
| There is sunlight and beauty about us | K |
| And the world is as fair as can be | J |
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| But mortals are always complaining | L |
| Each one thinks his own a sad lot | M |
| And forgetting the good things about him | N |
| Goes mourning for those he has not | M |
| Instead of the star spangled heavens | O |
| We look on the dust at our feet | P |
| We drain out the cup that is bitter | D |
| Forgetting the one that is sweet | P |
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| We mourn o'er the thorn in the flower | D |
| Forgetting its odour and bloom | Q |
| We pass by a garden of blossoms | R |
| To weep o'er the dust of the tomb | Q |
| There are blessings unnumbered about us | K |
| Like the leaves of the forest they grow | S |
| And the fault is our own not the Giver's | K |
| That we have not an Eden below | S |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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