Sorry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHAJIJ IKLKMNON PQRQLSTS UVTVWXYX MZAZCA2B2A2| There is much in life that makes me sorry as I journey | A |
| down life s way | B |
| And I seem to see more pathos in poor human | C |
| Lives each day | B |
| I m sorry for the strong brave men who shield | D |
| the weak from harm | E |
| But who in their own troubled hours find no | F |
| Protecting arm | E |
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| I m sorry for the victors who have reached | G |
| success to stand | H |
| As targets for the arrows shot by envious failure s | I |
| hand | H |
| I m sorry for the generous hearts who freely | A |
| shared their wine | J |
| But drink alone the gall of tears in fortune s | I |
| drear decline | J |
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| I m sorry for the souls who build their own fame s | I |
| funeral pyre | K |
| Derided by the scornful throng like ice deriding | L |
| fire | K |
| I m sorry for the conquering ones tho know not | M |
| sin s defeat | N |
| But daily tread down fierce desire neath scorched | O |
| and bleeding feet | N |
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| I m sorry for the anguished hearts that break with | P |
| passions strain | Q |
| But I m sorrier for the poor starved souls that | R |
| Never knew love s pain | Q |
| Who hunger on through barren years not tasting | L |
| joys they crave | S |
| For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o er a | T |
| grave | S |
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| I m sorry for the souls that come unwelcomed | U |
| into birth | V |
| I m sorry for the unloved old who cumber up the | T |
| earth | V |
| I m sorry for the suffering poor in life s great | W |
| maelstrom hurled | X |
| In truth I m sorry for them all who make this | Y |
| aching world | X |
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| But underneath whate er seems sad and is not | M |
| understood | Z |
| I know there lies hid from our sight a mighty | A |
| germ of good | Z |
| And this belief stands firm by me my sermon | C |
| motto text | A2 |
| The sorriest things in this life will seem grandest | B2 |
| in the next | A2 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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