Seeking For Happiness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEDD FDFDFF AGAGHH| Seeking for happiness we must go slowly | A |
| The road leads not down avenues of haste | B |
| But often gently winds through by ways lowly | A |
| Whose hidden pleasures are serene and chaste | B |
| Seeking for happiness we must take heed | C |
| Of simple joys that are not found in speed | C |
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| Eager for noon time's large effulgent splendour | D |
| Too oft we miss the beauty of the dawn | E |
| Which tiptoes by us evanescent tender | D |
| Its pure delights unrecognised till gone | E |
| Seeking for happiness we needs must care | D |
| For all the little things that make life fair | D |
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| Dreaming of future pleasures and achievements | F |
| We must not let to day starve at our door | D |
| Nor wait till after losses and bereavements | F |
| Before we count the riches in our store | D |
| Seeking for happiness we must prize this | F |
| Not what will be or was but that which is | F |
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| In simple pathways hand in hand with duty | A |
| With faith and love too ever at her side | G |
| May happiness be met in all her beauty | A |
| The while we search for her both far and wide | G |
| Seeking for happiness we find the way | H |
| Doing the things we ought to do each day | H |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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