The World Grows Better Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACAC DEDEFGFG AHAHIJIJ KLKLMNON PQRQFGFG| Oh the earth is full of sinning | A |
| And of trouble and of woe | B |
| But the devil makes an inning | A |
| Every time we say it's so | B |
| And the way to set him scowling | A |
| And to put him back a pace | C |
| Is to stop this stupid growling | A |
| And to look things in the face | C |
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| If you glance at history's pages | D |
| In all lands and eras known | E |
| You will find the buried ages | D |
| Far more wicked than our own | E |
| As you scan each word and letter | F |
| You will realise it more | G |
| That the world to day is better | F |
| Than it ever was before | G |
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| There is much that needs amending | A |
| In the present time no doubt | H |
| There is right that needs amending | A |
| There is wrong needs crushing out | H |
| And we hear the groans and curses | I |
| Of the poor who starve and die | J |
| While the men with swollen purses | I |
| In the place of hearts go by | J |
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| But in spite of all the trouble | K |
| That obscures the sun to day | L |
| Just remember it was double | K |
| In the ages passed away | L |
| And those wrongs shall all be righted | M |
| Good shall dominate the land | N |
| For the darkness now is lighted | O |
| By the torch in Science's hand | N |
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| Forth from little motes in Chaos | P |
| We have come to what we are | Q |
| And no evil force can stay us | R |
| We shall mount from star to star | Q |
| We shall break each bond and fetter | F |
| That has bound us heretofore | G |
| And the earth is surely better | F |
| Than it ever was before | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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