The World's All Right Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCDDBBEE FFBBBBEE GGHHIIEE AAJJKKHE LLMNOOEE PPQQBBEE RRSSBBEE CCQQBBEEBe honest kindly simple true | A |
Seek good in all scorn but pretence | B |
Whatever sorrow come to you | A |
Believe in Life's Beneficence | B |
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The World's all right serene I sit | C |
And cease to puzzle over it | C |
There's much that's mighty strange no doubt | D |
But Nature knows what she's about | D |
And in a million years or so | B |
We'll know more than to day we know | B |
Old Evolution's under way | E |
What ho the World's all right I say | E |
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Could things be other than they are | F |
All's in its place from mote to star | F |
The thistledown that flits and flies | B |
Could drift no hair breadth otherwise | B |
What is must be with rhythmic laws | B |
All Nature chimes Effect and Cause | B |
The sand grain and the sun obey | E |
What ho the World's all right I say | E |
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Just try to get the Cosmic touch | G |
The sense that you don't matter much | G |
A million stars are in the sky | H |
A million planets plunge and die | H |
A million million men are sped | I |
A million million wait ahead | I |
Each plays his part and has his day | E |
What ho the World's all right I say | E |
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Just try to get the Chemic view | A |
A million million lives made you | A |
In lives a million you will be | J |
Immortal down Eternity | J |
Immortal on this earth to range | K |
With never death but ever change | K |
You always were and will be aye | H |
What ho the World's all right I say | E |
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Be glad And do not blindly grope | L |
For Truth that lies beyond our scope | L |
A sober plot informeth all | M |
Of Life's uproarious carnival | N |
Your day is such a little one | O |
A gnat that lives from sun to sun | O |
Yet gnat and you have parts to play | E |
What ho the World's all right I say | E |
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And though it's written from the start | P |
Just act your best your little part | P |
Just be as happy as you can | Q |
And serve your kind and die a man | Q |
Just live the good that in you lies | B |
And seek no guerdon of the skies | B |
Just make your Heaven here to day | E |
What ho the World's all right I say | E |
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Remember in Creation's swing | R |
The Race and not the man's the thing | R |
There's battle murder sudden death | S |
And pestilence with poisoned breath | S |
Yet quick forgotten are such woes | B |
On on the stream of Being flows | B |
Truth Beauty Love uphold their sway | E |
What ho the World's all right I say | E |
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The World's all right serene I sit | C |
And joy that I am part of it | C |
And put my trust in Nature's plan | Q |
And try to aid her all I can | Q |
Content to pass if in my place | B |
I've served the uplift of the Race | B |
Truth Beauty Love O Radiant Day | E |
What ho the World's all right I say | E |
Robert Service
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