The Right Thing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CBA DEA DEA CEA FBAALet others probe the mystery if they can | A |
Time harried prisoners of Shall and Will | B |
The right thing happens to the happy man | A |
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The bird flies out the bird flies back again | C |
The hill becomes the valley and is still | B |
Let others delve that mystery if they can | A |
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God bless the roots Body and soul are one | D |
The small become the great the great the small | E |
The right thing happens to the happy man | A |
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Child of the dark he can out leap the sun | D |
His being single and that being all | E |
The right thing happens to the happy man | A |
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Or he sits still a solid figure when | C |
The self destructive shake the common wall | E |
Takes to himself what mystery he can | A |
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And praising change as the slow night comes on | F |
Wills what he would surrendering his will | B |
Till mystery is no more No more he can | A |
The right thing happens to the happy man | A |
Theodore Roethke
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