Just To Be Good Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDDB BAAEEDDDB| Just to be good | A |
| This is enough enough | B |
| O we who find sin's billows wild and rough | B |
| Do we not feel how more than any gold | C |
| Would be the blameless life we led of old | C |
| While yet our lips knew but a mother's kiss | D |
| Ah though we miss | D |
| All else but this | D |
| To be good is enough | B |
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| It is enough | B |
| Enough just to be good | A |
| To lift our hearts where they are understood | A |
| To let the thirst for worldly power and place | E |
| Go unappeased to smile back in God's face | E |
| With the glad lips our mothers used to kiss | D |
| Ah though we miss | D |
| All else but this | D |
| To be good is enough | B |
James Whitcomb Riley
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