Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EFFEGGHHIIJJDD JJKLMNNM| Life I know not what thou art | A |
| But know that thou and I must part | A |
| And when or how or where we met | B |
| I own to me 's a secret yet | B |
| But this I know when thou art fled | C |
| Where'er they lay these limbs this head | C |
| No clod so valueless shall be | D |
| As all that then remains of me | D |
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| O whither whither dost thou fly | E |
| Where bend unseen thy trackless course | F |
| And in this strange divorce | F |
| Ah tell where I must seek this compound I | E |
| To the vast ocean of empyreal flame | G |
| From whence thy essence came | G |
| Dost thou thy flight pursue when freed | H |
| From matter's base encumbering weed | H |
| Or dost thou hid from sight | I |
| Wait like some spell bound knight | I |
| Through blank oblivious years th' appointed hour | J |
| To break thy trance and reassume thy power | J |
| Yet canst thou without thought or feeling be | D |
| O say what art thou when no more thou'rt thee | D |
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| Life we have been long together | J |
| Through pleasant and through cloudy weather | J |
| 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear | K |
| Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh a tear | L |
| Then steal away give little warning | M |
| Choose thine own time | N |
| Say not Good night but in some brighter clime | N |
| Bid me Good morning | M |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
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