The Land Of Content Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCA DEDEEFFA GHGHHBBA IJIJJKKA| I set out for the Land of Content | A |
| By the gay crowded pleasure highway | B |
| With laughter and jesting I went | A |
| With the mirth loving throng for a day | B |
| Then I knew I had wandered astray | B |
| For I met returned pilgrims belated | C |
| Who said We are weary and sated | C |
| But we found not the Land of Content | A |
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| I turned to the steep path of fame | D |
| I said It is over yon height | E |
| This land with the beautiful name | D |
| Ambition will lend me its light | E |
| But I paused in my journey ere night | E |
| For the way grew so lonely and troubled | F |
| I said my anxiety doubled | F |
| This is not the road to Content | A |
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| Then I joined the great rabble and throng | G |
| That frequents the moneyed world's mart | H |
| But the greed and the grasping and wrong | G |
| Left me only one wish to depart | H |
| And sickened and saddened at heart | H |
| I hurried away from the gateway | B |
| For my soul and my spirit said straightway | B |
| This is not the road to Content | A |
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| Then weary in body and brain | I |
| An overgrown path I detected | J |
| And I said I will hide with my pain | I |
| In this byway unused and neglected | J |
| Lo it led to the realm God selected | J |
| To crown with His best gifts of beauty | K |
| And through the dark pathway of duty | K |
| I came to the land of Content | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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