You Never Can Tell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HIJIKLDL MNOPQCRC| You never can tell when you send a word | A |
| Like an arrow shot from a bow | B |
| By an archer blind be it cruel or kind | C |
| Just where it may chance to go | D |
| It may pierce the breast of your dearest friend | E |
| Tipped with its poison or balm | F |
| To a stranger s heart in life s great mart | G |
| It may carry its pain or its calm | F |
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| You never can tell when you do an act | H |
| Just what the result will be | I |
| But with every deed you are sowing a seed | J |
| Though the harvest you may not see | I |
| Each kindly act is an acorn dropped | K |
| In God s productive soil | L |
| You may not know but the tree shall grow | D |
| With shelter for those who toil | L |
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| You never can tell what your thoughts will do | M |
| In bringing you hate or love | N |
| For thoughts are things and their airy wings | O |
| Are swifter than carrier doves | P |
| They follow the law of the universe | Q |
| Each thing must create its kind | C |
| And they speed o er the track to bring you back | R |
| Whatever went out from your mind | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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