Better Things Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKHK LMNM OPQP RSTS UVWV XYZY| Better to smell the violet | A |
| Than sip the glowing wine | B |
| Better to hearken to a brook | C |
| Than watch a diamond shine | B |
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| Better to have a loving friend | D |
| Than ten admiring foes | E |
| Better a daisy's earthy root | F |
| Than a gorgeous dying rose | E |
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| Better to love in loneliness | G |
| Than bask in love all day | H |
| Better the fountain in the heart | I |
| Than the fountain by the way | H |
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| Better be fed by mother's hand | J |
| Than eat alone at will | K |
| Better to trust in God than say | H |
| My goods my storehouse fill | K |
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| Better to be a little wise | L |
| Than in knowledge to abound | M |
| Better to teach a child than toil | N |
| To fill perfection's round | M |
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| Better to sit at some man's feet | O |
| Than thrill a listening state | P |
| Better suspect that thou art proud | Q |
| Than be sure that thou art great | P |
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| Better to walk the realm unseen | R |
| Than watch the hour's event | S |
| Better the Well done faithful slave | T |
| Than the air with shoutings rent | S |
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| Better to have a quiet grief | U |
| Than many turbulent joys | V |
| Better to miss thy manhood's aim | W |
| Than sacrifice the boy's | V |
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| Better a death when work is done | X |
| Than earth's most favoured birth | Y |
| Better a child in God's great house | Z |
| Than the king of all the earth | Y |
George Macdonald
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