Workworn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEBBFFGGHHII JJKKLLMMNNOOPPQQ| Across the street an humble woman lives | A |
| To her 'tis little fortune ever gives | A |
| Denied the wines of life it puzzles me | B |
| To know how she can laugh so cheerily | C |
| This morn I listened to her softly sing | D |
| And marvelling what this effect could bring | D |
| I looked 'twas but the presence of a child | E |
| Who passed her gate and looking in had smiled | E |
| But self encrusted I had failed to see | B |
| The child had also looked and laughed to me | B |
| My lowly neighbour thought the smile God sent | F |
| And singing through the toilsome hours she went | F |
| O weary singer I have learned the wrong | G |
| Of taking gifts and giving naught of song | G |
| I thought my blessings scant my mercies few | H |
| Till I contrasted them with yours and you | H |
| To day I counted much yet wished it more | I |
| While but a child's bright smile was all your store | I |
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| If I had thought of all the stormy days | J |
| That fill some lives that tread less favoured ways | J |
| How little sunshine through their shadows gleamed | K |
| My own dull life had much the brighter seemed | K |
| If I had thought of all the eyes that weep | L |
| Through desolation and still smiling keep | L |
| That see so little pleasure so much woe | M |
| My own had laughed more often long ago | M |
| If I had thought how leaden was the weight | N |
| Adversity lays at my kinsman's gate | N |
| Of that great cross my next door neighbour bears | O |
| My thanks had been more frequent in my prayers | O |
| If I had watched the woman o'er the way | P |
| Workworn and old who labours day by day | P |
| Who has no rest no joy to call her own | Q |
| My tasks my heart had much the lighter grown | Q |
Emily Pauline Johnson
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