Praise Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC ADADAEAE AFAFGHGH| Let us halt now for a space in our hurrying | A |
| Let us take time to look up and look out | B |
| Let us refuse for a spell to be worrying | A |
| Let us decline to both question and doubt | B |
| If one goes cavilling | A |
| Hair splitting flaw hunting ready for strife | C |
| All the best pleasure is missed in the travelling | A |
| Onward through life | C |
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| Just for to day we will put away sorrowing | A |
| Just for to day not a tear shall be shed | D |
| Nor will we fear anything or go borrowing | A |
| Pain from the future by profitless dread | D |
| Thought shall go frolicking | A |
| Pleasuring treasuring everything bright | E |
| Tasting the joy that is found just in rollicking | A |
| On through the light | E |
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| Just for to day all the ills that need bettering | A |
| We will omit from our notebook of mind | F |
| All that is good we will mark by red lettering | A |
| Those things alone we are seeking to find | F |
| Things to be sad over | G |
| Pine over whine over pass them I say | H |
| Nothing is noted save what we are glad over | G |
| This is Praise Day | H |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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