Wishing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGHGIJKL IMNMIFOF| Do you wish the world were better | A |
| Let me tell you what to do | B |
| Set a watch for your actions | C |
| Keep them always straight and true | B |
| Rid tour mind of selfish motives | D |
| Let your thoughts be clean and high | E |
| You can make a little Eden | F |
| Of the sphere you occupy | E |
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| Do you wish the world were wiser | A |
| Well suppose you made a start | G |
| By accumulating wisdom | H |
| In the scrapbook of your heart | G |
| Do not waste one page on folly | I |
| Live to learn and learn to live | J |
| If you want to give men knowledge | K |
| You must get it ere you give | L |
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| Do you wish the world were happy | I |
| Then remember day by day | M |
| Just to scatter seeds of kindness | N |
| As you pass along the way | M |
| For the pleasures of the many | I |
| May ofttimes traced to one | F |
| As the hand that plants an acorn | O |
| Shelters armies from the sun | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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