Happiness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBB CCDDEECCCCFFBB EEGH| Happiness to some elation | A |
| Is to others mere stagnation | A |
| Days of passive somnolence | B |
| At its wildest indolence | B |
| Hours of empty quietness | B |
| No delight and no distress | B |
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| Happiness to me is wine | C |
| Effervescent superfine | C |
| Full of tang and fiery pleasure | D |
| Far too hot to leave me leisure | D |
| For a single thought beyond it | E |
| Drunk Forgetful This the bond it | E |
| Means to give one's soul to gain | C |
| Life's quintessence Even pain | C |
| Pricks to livelier living then | C |
| Wakes the nerves to laugh again | C |
| Rapture's self is three parts sorrow | F |
| Although we must die to morrow | F |
| Losing every thought but this | B |
| Torn triumphant drowned in bliss | B |
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| Happiness We rarely feel it | E |
| I would buy it beg it steal it | E |
| Pay in coins of dripping blood | G |
| For this one transcendent good | H |
Amy Lowell
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