Worldly Wisdom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK| If it were in my dead Past s power | A |
| To let my Present bask | B |
| In some lost pleasure for an hour | A |
| This is the boon I d ask | B |
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| Re pedestal from out the dust | C |
| Where long ago twas hurled | D |
| My beautiful incautious trust | C |
| In this unworthy world | D |
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| The symbol of my souls own truth | E |
| I saw it go with tears | F |
| The sweet unwisdom of my youth | E |
| That vanished with the years | G |
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| Since knowledge brings us only grief | H |
| I would return again | I |
| To happy ignorance and belief | H |
| In motives and in men | I |
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| For worldly wisdom learned in pain | J |
| Is in itself a cross | K |
| Significant mayhap of gain | J |
| Yet sign of saddest loss | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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