A Bit Of Gladness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDED CFGFGBGB HBIBBJIJ BKBKBILI BMCMINBN CNCNBBNB| As I near my lonely cottage | A |
| At the close of weary day | B |
| There's a little bit of gladness | C |
| Comes to meet me on the way | B |
| Dimpled tanned and petticoated | B |
| Innocent as angels are | D |
| Like a smiling straying sunbeam | E |
| Is my Stella like a star | D |
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| Soon a hand of tissue softness | C |
| Slips confidingly in mine | F |
| And with tender look appealing | G |
| Eyes of beauty sweetly shine | F |
| Like a gentle shepherd guiding | G |
| Some lost lamb unto the fold | B |
| So she leads me homeward prattling | G |
| Till her stories are all told | B |
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| Papa I'm so glad to see you | H |
| Cousin Mabel came today | B |
| And the gas man brought a letter | I |
| That he said you'd better pay | B |
| Yes and awful things is happened | B |
| My poor kitty's drowned to death | J |
| Mamma's got the 'Pigs in Clover' | I |
| Here she stops for want of breath | J |
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| I am like the bold knight errant | B |
| From his castle who would roam | K |
| Trusting her my faithful steward | B |
| For a strict account of home | K |
| And each day I toil and hazard | B |
| All that any man may dare | I |
| For a resting place at even | L |
| And the love that waits me there | I |
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| And sometimes I look with pity | B |
| On my neighbor's mansion tall | M |
| There are chambers full of pictures | C |
| There are marbles in the hall | M |
| Yet with all the signs of splendor | I |
| That may gild a pile of stone | N |
| Not a living thing about it | B |
| But the owner grim and lone | N |
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| I believe that all his millions | C |
| He would give without repine | N |
| For a little bit of gladness | C |
| In his life like that in mine | N |
| This it is that makes my pathway | B |
| Beautiful wherever trod | B |
| Keeps my soul from wreck and ruin | N |
| Keeps me nearer to my God | B |
Hattie Howard
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