The Needed One Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBC CDCEDA DFDGFG AHIHAI JCJGCG| 'Twas not rare versatility | A |
| Nor gift of poesy or art | B |
| Nor piquant sparkling jeux d'esprit | A |
| Which at the call of fancy come | C |
| That touched the universal heart | B |
| And won the world's encomium | C |
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| It was not beauty's potent charm | C |
| For admiration followed her | D |
| Unmindful of the rounded arm | C |
| The fair complexion's brilliancy | E |
| If form and features shapely were | D |
| Or lacked the grace of symmetry | A |
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| So not by marked especial power | D |
| She grew endeared to human thought | F |
| But just because in trial's hour | D |
| Was loving service to be done | G |
| Or sympathy and counsel sought | F |
| She made herself the needed one | G |
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| Oh great the blessedness must be | A |
| Of heart and hand and brain alert | H |
| In projects wise and manifold | I |
| Impending sorrow to avert | H |
| That duller natures fail to see | A |
| Or stand aloof severe and cold | I |
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| And who shall doubt that this is why | J |
| In womanhood's florescent prime | C |
| She passed the portals of the sky | J |
| As if a life thus truly given | G |
| To purpose pure and act sublime | C |
| Were needed also up in Heaven | G |
Hattie Howard
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