Is Life Worth Living? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGHGIJIJJKJK LMLMINIOIPIPJIJIQKQK RSRSTJTJIJIJJUJUV VK AJAJIWIWIJIJIIIIJKJK IIIIXJXJPJPJYZYZKKKK

Is life worth living Yes so longA
As Spring revives the yearB
And hails us with the cuckoo's songA
To show that she is hereC
So long as May of April takesD
In smiles and tears farewellE
And windflowers dapple all the brakesD
And primroses the dellE
While children in the woodlands yetF
Adorn their little lapsG
With ladysmock and violetH
And daisy chain their capsG
While over orchard daffodilsI
Cloud shadows float and fleetJ
And ousel pipes and laverock trillsI
And young lambs buck and bleatJ
So long as that which bursts the budJ
And swells and tunes the rillK
Makes springtime in the maiden's bloodJ
Life is worth living stillK
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Life not worth living Come with meL
Now that through vanishing veilM
Shimmers the dew on lawn and leaL
And milk foams in the pailM
Now that June's sweltering sunlight bathesI
With sweat the striplings litheN
As fall the long straight scented swathesI
Over the crescent scytheO
Now that the throstle never stopsI
His self sufficing strainP
And woodbine trails festoon the copseI
And eglantine the laneP
Now rustic labour seems as sweetJ
As leisure and blithe herdsI
Wend homeward with unweary feetJ
Carolling like the birdsI
Now all except the lover's vowQ
And nightingale is stillK
Here in the twilight hour allowQ
Life is worth living stillK
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When Summer lingering half forlornR
On Autumn loves to leanS
And fields of slowly yellowing cornR
Are girt by woods still greenS
When hazel nuts wax brown and plumpT
And apples rosy redJ
And the owlet hoots from hollow stumpT
And the dormouse makes its bedJ
When crammed are all the granary floorsI
And the Hunter's moon is brightJ
And life again is sweet indoorsI
And logs again alightJ
Aye even when the houseless windJ
Waileth through cleft and chinkU
And in the twilight maids grow kindJ
And jugs are filled and clinkU
When children clasp their hands and prayV
Be done Thy heavenly will ''-
Who doth not lift his voice and sayV
Life is worth living still''K
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Is life worth living Yes so longA
As there is wrong to rightJ
Wail of the weak against the strongA
Or tyranny to fightJ
Long as there lingers gloom to chaseI
Or streaming tear to dryW
One kindred woe one sorrowing faceI
That smiles as we draw nighW
Long as at tale of anguish swellsI
The heart and lids grow wetJ
And at the sound of Christmas bellsI
We pardon and forgetJ
So long as Faith with Freedom reignsI
And loyal Hope survivesI
And gracious Charity remainsI
To leaven lowly livesI
While there in one untrodden tractJ
For Intellect or WillK
And men are free to think and actJ
Life is worth living stillK
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Not care to live while English homesI
Nestle in English treesI
And England's Trident Sceptre roamsI
Her territorial seasI
Not live while English songs are sungX
Wherever blows the windJ
And England's laws and England's tongueX
Enfranchise half mankindJ
So long as in Pacific mainP
Or on Atlantic strandJ
Our kin transmit the parent strainP
And love the Mother LandJ
So long as in this ocean RealmY
Victoria and her LineZ
Retain the heritage of the helmY
By loyalty divineZ
So long as flashes English steelK
And English trumpets shrillK
He is dead already who doth not feelK
Life is worth living stillK

Alfred Austin



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