Worth Living Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK| I know not what the future may hold | A |
| Or how to others it seems | B |
| But I know my skies have held more gold | A |
| Than I used to find in my dreams | B |
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| Though the whole world sings of hopes death chilled | C |
| In grateful truth I say | D |
| That my best hopes have been fulfilled | C |
| And more than fulfilled to day | D |
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| Though oft my arrow I aim at the sun | E |
| To see it fall into the sand | F |
| Yet just as often some work I have done | E |
| Is better than I have planned | F |
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| I do not always grasp the pleasure | G |
| For which I reach maybe | H |
| But quite as frequently over measure | G |
| Is given by joy to me | H |
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| To morrow may bring a grief behind it | I |
| That will thoroughly change my mood | J |
| But we only can speak of a thing as we find it | I |
| And I have found life good | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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