The Truth Teller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFCGCG CHCHIJIJ CKCKCCCC| The Truth Teller lifts the curtain | A |
| And shows us the people's plight | B |
| And everything seems uncertain | A |
| And nothing at all looks right | B |
| Yet out of the blackness groping | C |
| My heart finds a world in bloom | D |
| For it somehow is fashioned for hoping | C |
| And it cannot live in the gloom | D |
| - | |
| He tells us from border to border | E |
| That race is warring with race | F |
| With riot and mad disorder | E |
| The earth is a wretched place | F |
| And yet ere the sun is setting | C |
| I am thinking of peace not strife | G |
| For my heart has a way of forgetting | C |
| All things save the joy of life | G |
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| I heard in my Youth's beginning | C |
| That earth was a region of woe | H |
| And trouble and sorrow and sinning | C |
| The Truth Teller told me so | H |
| I knew it was true and tragic | I |
| And I mourned over much that was wrong | J |
| And then by some curious magic | I |
| The heart of me burst into song | J |
| - | |
| The years have been going going | C |
| A mixture of pleasure and pain | K |
| But the Truth Teller's books are showing | C |
| That evil is on the gain | K |
| And I know that I ought to be grieving | C |
| And I should be too sad to sing | C |
| But somehow I keep on believing | C |
| That life is a glorious thing | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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