If We But Knew Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACC DEEDCC FGGFCC HHHHCC IJJICC AHHAKK| If we but knew the weary way | A |
| The poisoned paths of hostile hate | B |
| The roughened roads of fiercest fate | B |
| Through which our brother's journey lay | A |
| Would we condemn as now we do | C |
| His faults and failures if we knew | C |
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| Would we forget the shadows grim | D |
| The lonely hours of grief and pain | E |
| The follies dead the pleasures slain | E |
| The tears and toils that hindered him | D |
| And only prize the deeds that grew | C |
| To mighty conquest if we knew | C |
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| Would careless hand sow tares of strife | F |
| Amid the blooms of happy care | G |
| And plant in spite of sigh and prayer | G |
| Wild thorns amid the blameless life | F |
| Till sorrows rule the nations through | C |
| With scarce a rival if we knew | C |
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| Would we be quicker with our praise | H |
| And gladly give the greatest meeds | H |
| As recompense for noble deeds | H |
| And heroes crown with brightest bays | H |
| And slay all foes that hearts imbue | C |
| With doubt and weakness if we knew | C |
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| From lofty kings would constant worth | I |
| On peasant brows their crowns bestow | J |
| And rising from her overthrow | J |
| Eternal justice rule the earth | I |
| While right would strip the favored few | C |
| To bless the many if we knew | C |
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| If we but knew Ah well a day | A |
| From lives that murmur full of ills | H |
| Behind the shadows of the hills | H |
| God hides our brother's heart away | A |
| And we shall know in vales of rest | K |
| That His eternal ways are best | K |
Freeman E. Miller
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