Unless Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEEF GHGHIJJI KLKLMGGM| Who has not wanted does not guess | A |
| What plenty is Who has not groped | B |
| In depths of doubt and hopelessness | C |
| Has never truly hoped | B |
| Unless sometimes a shaow falls | D |
| Upon his mirth and veils his sight | E |
| And from the darkness drifts the light | E |
| Of love at intervals | F |
| - | |
| And that most dear of everything | G |
| I hold is love and who can sit | H |
| With lightest heart and laugh and sing | G |
| Knows not the worth of it | H |
| Unless in some strange throng perchance | I |
| He feels how thrilling sweet it is | J |
| One yearning look that answers his | J |
| The troth of glance and glance | I |
| - | |
| Who knows not pain knows not alas | K |
| What pleasure is Who knows not of | L |
| The bitter cup that will not pass | K |
| Knows not the taste of love | L |
| O souls that thirst and hearts that fast | M |
| And natures faint with famishing | G |
| God lift and lead and safely bring | G |
| You to your own at last | M |
James Whitcomb Riley
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