Be Courteous Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMNM OPOP KQKO| Ah yes why not Is one more adventitious born | A |
| Than others shekels richer honors fuller and all that | B |
| That he can pass his fellows by with lofty scorn | A |
| Nor even show this slight regard the lifting of the hat | B |
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| Why prate of social status class or rank when earth | C |
| Is common tenting ground the heritage of all mankind | D |
| Except in purity is there no royal birth | C |
| No true nobility but nobleness of heart and mind | D |
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| Life is so short one journey long a pilgrimage | E |
| That we cannot retrace nor ever pass this way again | F |
| Then why not turn for some poor soul a brighter page | G |
| And line the way with courtesies unto our fellow men | F |
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| To give a graceful word or smile or lend a hand | H |
| To one downcast and trembling on the borders of despair | I |
| May help him to look up and better understand | H |
| Why God has made the sky so bright and put the rainbow there | I |
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| Be courteous is nothing helpful half so cheap | J |
| As kind urbanity that doth so much of gladness bring | K |
| More precious too than all the treasures of the deep | J |
| Making the winter of discomfort seem like joyous spring | K |
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| Be courteous and gentle be serene and good | L |
| Those grand ennobling and enduring virtues all may claim | M |
| Of each may it be said of the great multitude | N |
| Oh that my life were more like such an one of blessed fame | M |
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| Is it that over crowding care anxiety | O |
| Vortex of pleasure the incessant round of toil and strife | P |
| Beget indifference repressing love and sympathy | O |
| Till we forget the beautiful amenities of life | P |
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| Then cometh a sad day when with a poignant sting | K |
| Lost opportunities shall speak to us reproachfully | Q |
| And ours shall be the disapproval of the King | K |
| Discourteous to these my creatures ye have wounded Me | O |
Hattie Howard
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