A Song Of Cheer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI GIGI JGJJ KLKL ABAB| Be of good cheer and have no fear | A |
| Of Fortune or Tomorrow | B |
| To Hope's low whisper lend an ear | C |
| And turn away from Sorrow | B |
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| Time out of mind the soul is blind | D |
| To things God sends as blessings | E |
| And Fortune often proves unkind | D |
| Merely in foolish guessings | E |
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| Within the soul we bear the whole | F |
| Of Hell and also Heaven | G |
| And 'twixt the two is set the goal | F |
| Of dreams our lives have driven | G |
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| What counts above all deeds is Love | H |
| And Friendship that remember | I |
| In heart beats keeps Life's record of | H |
| Its April and December | I |
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| To every one come rain and sun | G |
| And calm and stormy weather | I |
| What helps is not what Life has done | G |
| But Life and Love together | I |
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| Of sun and rain and joy and pain | J |
| The web of Life is woven | G |
| And ever through it runs the skein | J |
| Of Hope with strand uncloven | J |
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| Now high in air it glitters fair | K |
| Now dims beyond divining | L |
| But still the thread winds golden there | K |
| Although no longer shining | L |
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| Be of good cheer and have no fear | A |
| Of any care or sorrow | B |
| The clouds at last will disappear | A |
| And the sun will shine tomorrow | B |
Madison Julius Cawein
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