A Lesson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCBC DDEEDE FFGGFG HHIIHI| A | |
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| I know now why the world was sad | B |
| With so much good to make it glad | B |
| Why all things loveliest and best | C |
| Have stirred vague sorrows in my breast | C |
| And sweetest days that life has had | B |
| Have vexed me with such vast unrest | C |
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| I know why I have pined and toiled | D |
| And found all aspirations foiled | D |
| I know why I have gained and spent | E |
| And never learned what riches meant | E |
| I know what lack and loss have spoiled | D |
| The treasure of my soul's content | E |
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| Like day dawn on the darkened earth | F |
| Like sun and rain in drought and dearth | F |
| Like spring that wakens flowers so fast | G |
| When barren winter time is past | G |
| Love long deferred has come to birth | F |
| And I am satisfied at last | G |
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| My heart is singing tears are shed | H |
| I that was starved am warmed and fed | H |
| For love is fire and food and wine | I |
| All comfort earthly and divine | I |
| Now I am living that was dead | H |
| And all that life can give is mine | I |
Ada Cambridge
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