Cui Bono Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBBBD BBBBBB EFEEEF GHGGGI JKJJJK LBLMLB NBNNNB OBOOOB BOBBBO PQPPPQ RBRRRB SOTTSO BUBBBU VBVVVBA | |
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Why should we care for storms that rave and rend | B |
Safe at our household hearth | C |
Unknowing whence we came or where we wend | B |
Why should we ache and toil and waste and spend | B |
Treading from no beginning to no end | B |
An uncrowned martyr's path | D |
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Is it worth while to suffer when we might | B |
Like happier men be blest | B |
With that dull blindness that desires no light | B |
That peaceful soul that feels no need to fight | B |
Nor thirsts for liberty and truth and right | B |
But lives its life at rest | B |
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Is it worth while to work and strive and learn | E |
To sow where none may reap | F |
Is it worth while to rage and fret and yearn | E |
For nameless treasure that we cannot earn | E |
Is it worth while in fever fires to burn | E |
While wise men eat and sleep | F |
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Is it worth while to care for praise or blame | G |
This little time we live | H |
When purest deeds are oftenest put to shame | G |
To pant for noble strife and lofty fame | G |
When gold seems better than a stainless name | G |
Or all the world can give | I |
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Is it worth while for friendship's gift to sue | J |
For friendship's joys to crave | K |
When sordid tests that bring us ruth and rue | J |
And sorrowful years alone discern the clue | J |
That tells us what is false and what is true | J |
And what we lose or save | K |
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To open wide our sanctuary door | L |
Some welcome guest to greet | B |
To find perchance when we have shown our store | L |
The sacred places rudely trampled o'er | M |
Bereaved profaned and soiled for evermore | L |
With tread of vulgar feet | B |
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Is it worth while to love though love find grace | N |
In our belov d's sight | B |
To bear a restless heart from place to place | N |
Hungry for sight of one transcendent face | N |
That shines our central sun in azure space | N |
Or leaves our world in night | B |
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And after all to gain no more than this | O |
At such a life long cost | B |
A taste a glimpse the memory of a kiss | O |
A speechless sense of what diviner bliss | O |
That might have been we have contrived to miss | O |
To know what love has lost | B |
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Is it worth while O sadder fate to heed | B |
The solemn chime that knells | O |
The death hour of an immemorial creed | B |
A staff of strength become a broken reed | B |
And never friendlier help in time of need | B |
Nor surer guide foretells | O |
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To heed the spirit voice that bids us take | P |
A strange new road alone | Q |
From gentle slumber and sweet dreams to wake | P |
And hear the mighty billows boom and break | P |
The thunder of immortal seas that shake | P |
The earth's foundation stone | Q |
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Is it worth while so far away as we | R |
To long in hope and dread | B |
For the great unborn Age that is to be | R |
To pine for light that we shall never see | R |
To care what course man's life and destiny | R |
May take when we are dead | B |
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Is it worth while to toil in doubt and fear | S |
Through thorny ways like these | O |
When they who turn blind eye and heedless ear | T |
To change and portent and who see nor hear | T |
The pregnant storm that gathers far and near | S |
Dwell all their days at ease | O |
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To leave the Good whereof we are possest | B |
To search in gloom and grief | U |
Through pathless trouble for some unknown Best | B |
And see no goal and find no place of rest | B |
Is it worth while on such a fruitless quest | B |
To waste a life so brief | U |
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Is it worth while to wear out heart and brain | V |
Ah me what must be must | B |
The maddening Mystery cannot be made plain | V |
And they who seek to solve it seek in vain | V |
Yet can but seek in sleepless hope and pain | V |
Till heart and brain are dust | B |
Ada Cambridge
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