On Any Beach'by M. A. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFGH DICIJJ| Yes in the stream and stress of things | A |
| That breaks around us like the sea | B |
| There comes to Peasants and to Kings | A |
| The solemn Hour of Jubilee | B |
| If they till strenuous Nature give | C |
| Some fifty harvests chance to live | D |
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| Ah Fifty harvests But the corn | E |
| Is grown beside the barren main | F |
| Is salt with sea spray blown and borne | E |
| Across the green unvintaged plain | F |
| And life lived out for fifty years | G |
| Is briny with the spray of tears | H |
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| Ah such is Life to us that live | D |
| Here in the twilight of the Gods | I |
| Who weigh each gift the world can give | C |
| And sigh and murmur What's the odds | I |
| So long's you're happy Nay what Man | J |
| Finds Happiness since Time began | J |
Andrew Lang
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