Praise Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC ADADAEAE AFAFGHGHLet 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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