If This Be All Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO MBMB O| O God if this indeed be all | A |
| That Life can show to me | B |
| If on my aching brow may fall | A |
| No freshening dew from Thee | B |
| If with no brighter light than this | C |
| The lamp of hope may glow | D |
| And I may only dream of bliss | C |
| And wake to weary woe | D |
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| If friendship's solace must decay | E |
| When other joys are gone | F |
| And love must keep so far away | E |
| While I go wandering on | G |
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| Wandering and toiling without gain | H |
| The slave of others' will | I |
| With constant care and frequent pain | H |
| Despised forgotten still | I |
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| Grieving to look on vice and sin | J |
| Yet powerless to quell | K |
| The silent current from within | J |
| The outward torrent's swell | K |
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| While all the good I would impart | L |
| The feelings I would share | M |
| Are driven backward to my heart | L |
| And turned to wormwood there | M |
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| If clouds must ever keep from sight | N |
| The glories of the Sun | O |
| And I must suffer Winter's blight | N |
| Ere Summer is begun | O |
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| If life must be so full of care | M |
| Then call me soon to Thee | B |
| Or give me strength enough to bear | M |
| My load of misery | B |
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| Acton | O |
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