Cui Bono Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBBD BBBBBB EFEEEF GHGGGI JKJJJK LBLMLB NBNNNB OBOOOB BOBBBO PQPPPQ RBRRRB SOTTSO BUBBBU VBVVVB

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Why should we care for storms that rave and rendB
Safe at our household hearthC
Unknowing whence we came or where we wendB
Why should we ache and toil and waste and spendB
Treading from no beginning to no endB
An uncrowned martyr's pathD
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Is it worth while to suffer when we mightB
Like happier men be blestB
With that dull blindness that desires no lightB
That peaceful soul that feels no need to fightB
Nor thirsts for liberty and truth and rightB
But lives its life at restB
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Is it worth while to work and strive and learnE
To sow where none may reapF
Is it worth while to rage and fret and yearnE
For nameless treasure that we cannot earnE
Is it worth while in fever fires to burnE
While wise men eat and sleepF
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Is it worth while to care for praise or blameG
This little time we liveH
When purest deeds are oftenest put to shameG
To pant for noble strife and lofty fameG
When gold seems better than a stainless nameG
Or all the world can giveI
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Is it worth while for friendship's gift to sueJ
For friendship's joys to craveK
When sordid tests that bring us ruth and rueJ
And sorrowful years alone discern the clueJ
That tells us what is false and what is trueJ
And what we lose or saveK
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To open wide our sanctuary doorL
Some welcome guest to greetB
To find perchance when we have shown our storeL
The sacred places rudely trampled o'erM
Bereaved profaned and soiled for evermoreL
With tread of vulgar feetB
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Is it worth while to love though love find graceN
In our belov d's sightB
To bear a restless heart from place to placeN
Hungry for sight of one transcendent faceN
That shines our central sun in azure spaceN
Or leaves our world in nightB
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And after all to gain no more than thisO
At such a life long costB
A taste a glimpse the memory of a kissO
A speechless sense of what diviner blissO
That might have been we have contrived to missO
To know what love has lostB
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Is it worth while O sadder fate to heedB
The solemn chime that knellsO
The death hour of an immemorial creedB
A staff of strength become a broken reedB
And never friendlier help in time of needB
Nor surer guide foretellsO
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To heed the spirit voice that bids us takeP
A strange new road aloneQ
From gentle slumber and sweet dreams to wakeP
And hear the mighty billows boom and breakP
The thunder of immortal seas that shakeP
The earth's foundation stoneQ
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Is it worth while so far away as weR
To long in hope and dreadB
For the great unborn Age that is to beR
To pine for light that we shall never seeR
To care what course man's life and destinyR
May take when we are deadB
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Is it worth while to toil in doubt and fearS
Through thorny ways like theseO
When they who turn blind eye and heedless earT
To change and portent and who see nor hearT
The pregnant storm that gathers far and nearS
Dwell all their days at easeO
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To leave the Good whereof we are possestB
To search in gloom and griefU
Through pathless trouble for some unknown BestB
And see no goal and find no place of restB
Is it worth while on such a fruitless questB
To waste a life so briefU
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Is it worth while to wear out heart and brainV
Ah me what must be mustB
The maddening Mystery cannot be made plainV
And they who seek to solve it seek in vainV
Yet can but seek in sleepless hope and painV
Till heart and brain are dustB

Ada Cambridge



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