Is Life Worth Living? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGHGIJIJJKJK LMLMINIOIPIPJIJIQKQK RSRSTJTJIJIJJUJUV VK AJAJIWIWIJIJIIIIJKJK IIIIXJXJPJPJYZYZKKKKIs life worth living Yes so long | A |
As Spring revives the year | B |
And hails us with the cuckoo's song | A |
To show that she is here | C |
So long as May of April takes | D |
In smiles and tears farewell | E |
And windflowers dapple all the brakes | D |
And primroses the dell | E |
While children in the woodlands yet | F |
Adorn their little laps | G |
With ladysmock and violet | H |
And daisy chain their caps | G |
While over orchard daffodils | I |
Cloud shadows float and fleet | J |
And ousel pipes and laverock trills | I |
And young lambs buck and bleat | J |
So long as that which bursts the bud | J |
And swells and tunes the rill | K |
Makes springtime in the maiden's blood | J |
Life is worth living still | K |
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Life not worth living Come with me | L |
Now that through vanishing veil | M |
Shimmers the dew on lawn and lea | L |
And milk foams in the pail | M |
Now that June's sweltering sunlight bathes | I |
With sweat the striplings lithe | N |
As fall the long straight scented swathes | I |
Over the crescent scythe | O |
Now that the throstle never stops | I |
His self sufficing strain | P |
And woodbine trails festoon the copse | I |
And eglantine the lane | P |
Now rustic labour seems as sweet | J |
As leisure and blithe herds | I |
Wend homeward with unweary feet | J |
Carolling like the birds | I |
Now all except the lover's vow | Q |
And nightingale is still | K |
Here in the twilight hour allow | Q |
Life is worth living still | K |
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When Summer lingering half forlorn | R |
On Autumn loves to lean | S |
And fields of slowly yellowing corn | R |
Are girt by woods still green | S |
When hazel nuts wax brown and plump | T |
And apples rosy red | J |
And the owlet hoots from hollow stump | T |
And the dormouse makes its bed | J |
When crammed are all the granary floors | I |
And the Hunter's moon is bright | J |
And life again is sweet indoors | I |
And logs again alight | J |
Aye even when the houseless wind | J |
Waileth through cleft and chink | U |
And in the twilight maids grow kind | J |
And jugs are filled and clink | U |
When children clasp their hands and pray | V |
Be done Thy heavenly will '' | - |
Who doth not lift his voice and say | V |
Life is worth living still'' | K |
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Is life worth living Yes so long | A |
As there is wrong to right | J |
Wail of the weak against the strong | A |
Or tyranny to fight | J |
Long as there lingers gloom to chase | I |
Or streaming tear to dry | W |
One kindred woe one sorrowing face | I |
That smiles as we draw nigh | W |
Long as at tale of anguish swells | I |
The heart and lids grow wet | J |
And at the sound of Christmas bells | I |
We pardon and forget | J |
So long as Faith with Freedom reigns | I |
And loyal Hope survives | I |
And gracious Charity remains | I |
To leaven lowly lives | I |
While there in one untrodden tract | J |
For Intellect or Will | K |
And men are free to think and act | J |
Life is worth living still | K |
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Not care to live while English homes | I |
Nestle in English trees | I |
And England's Trident Sceptre roams | I |
Her territorial seas | I |
Not live while English songs are sung | X |
Wherever blows the wind | J |
And England's laws and England's tongue | X |
Enfranchise half mankind | J |
So long as in Pacific main | P |
Or on Atlantic strand | J |
Our kin transmit the parent strain | P |
And love the Mother Land | J |
So long as in this ocean Realm | Y |
Victoria and her Line | Z |
Retain the heritage of the helm | Y |
By loyalty divine | Z |
So long as flashes English steel | K |
And English trumpets shrill | K |
He is dead already who doth not feel | K |
Life is worth living still | K |
Alfred Austin
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