The Greater Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEF GGHH IIJJ KKLLMMNN| Hear thou my prayer great God of opulence | A |
| Give me no blessings save as recompense | B |
| For blessings which I lovingly bestow | C |
| On needy stranger or on suffering foe | C |
| If Wealth by chance should on my path appear | D |
| Let Wisdom and Benevolence stand near | D |
| And Charity within my portal wait | E |
| To guard me from acquaintance intimate | F |
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| Yet in this intricate great art of living | G |
| Guide me away from misdirected giving | G |
| And show me how to spur the laggard soul | H |
| To strive alone once more to gain the goal | H |
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| Repay my worldly efforts to attain | I |
| Only as I develop heart and brain | I |
| Nor brand me with the 'Dollar Sign' above | J |
| A bosom void of sympathy and love | J |
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| If on the carrying winds my name be blown | K |
| To any land or time beyond my own | K |
| Let it not be as one who gained the day | L |
| By crowding others from the chosen way | L |
| Rather as one who missed the highest place | M |
| Pausing to cheer spent runners in the race | M |
| To do to have is lesser than to BE | N |
| The greater boon I ask dear God from Thee | N |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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