The Way Of It Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDD CCEFFGHH AAIJJIAA| This is the way of it wide world over | A |
| One is beloved and one is the lover | A |
| One gives and the other receives | B |
| One lavishes all in a wild emotion | C |
| One offers a smile for a life s devotion | C |
| One hopes and the other believes | B |
| One lies awake in the night to weep | D |
| And the other drifts off in a sweet sound sleep | D |
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| One soul is aflame with a godlike passion | C |
| One plays with love in an idler s fashion | C |
| One speaks and the other hears | E |
| One sobs I love you and wet eyes to show it | F |
| And one laughs lightly and says I know it | F |
| With smiles for the other s tears | G |
| One lives for the other and nothing beside | H |
| And the other remembers the world is wide | H |
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| This is the way of it sad earth over | A |
| The heart that breaks is the heart of the lover | A |
| And the other learns to forget | I |
| For what is the use in endless sorrow | J |
| Though the sun goes down it will rise tomorrow | J |
| And life is not over yet | I |
| Oh I know this truth if I know no other | A |
| That passionate Love is Pain s own mother | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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