Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDCEEFFGGHIDD| Life's a name | A |
| That nothing here can truly claim | A |
| This wretched inn where we scarce stay to bait | B |
| We call our dwelling place | C |
| And mighty voyages we take | D |
| And mighty journeys seem to make | D |
| O'er sea and land the little point that has no space | C |
| Because we fight and battles gain | E |
| Some captives call and say 'the rest are slain' | E |
| Because we heap up yellow earth and so | F |
| Rich valiant wise and virtuous seem to grow | F |
| Because we draw a long nobility | G |
| From hieroglyphic proofs of heraldry | G |
| We grow at last by Custom to believe | H |
| That really we Live | I |
| Whilst all these Shadows that for Things we take | D |
| Are but the empty Dreams which in Death's sleep we make | D |
Abraham Cowley
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