The Things That Count Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABCCD EFGEFGGD HIJHIJJD| Now dear it isn't the bold things | A |
| Great deeds of valour and might | B |
| That count the most in the summing up of life at the end of the day | C |
| But it is the doing of old things | A |
| Small acts that are just and right | B |
| And doing them over and over again no matter what others say | C |
| In smiling at fate when you want to cry and in keeping at work when you want to play | C |
| Dear those are the things that count | D |
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| And dear it isn't the new ways | E |
| Where the wonder seekers crowd | F |
| That lead us into the land of content or help us to find our own | G |
| But it is keeping to true ways | E |
| Though the music is not so loud | F |
| And there may be many a shadowed spot where we journey along alone | G |
| In flinging a prayer at the face of fear and in changing into a song a groan | G |
| Dear these are the things that count | D |
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| My dear it isn't the loud part | H |
| Of creeds that are pleasing to God | I |
| Not the chant of a prayer or the hum of a hymn or a jubilant shout or song | J |
| But it is the beautiful proud part | H |
| Of walking with feet faith shod | I |
| And in loving loving loving through all no matter how things go wrong | J |
| In trusting ever though dark the day and in keeping your hope when the way seems long | J |
| Dear these are the things that count | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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