Worth While Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG AHIHJKFK LMHMLCFC| It is easy enough to be pleasant | A |
| When life flows by like a song | B |
| But the man worth while is the one who will smile | C |
| When everything goes dead wrong | B |
| For the test of the heart is trouble | D |
| And it always comes with the years | E |
| And the smile that is worth the praises of earth | F |
| Is the smile that shines through tears | G |
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| It is easy enough to be prudent | A |
| When nothing tempts you to stray | H |
| When without or within no voice of sin | I |
| Is luring your soul away | H |
| But it's only a negative virtue | J |
| Until it is tried by fire | K |
| And the life that is worth the honour on earth | F |
| Is the one that resists desire | K |
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| By the cynic the sad the fallen | L |
| Who had no strength for the strife | M |
| The world's highway is cumbered to day | H |
| They make up the sum of life | M |
| But the virtue that conquers passion | L |
| And the sorrow that hides in a smile | C |
| It is these that are worth the homage on earth | F |
| For we find them but once in a while | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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