The Saddest Fate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDECC FGFGCC HIJICC| To touch a broken lute | A |
| To strike a jangled string | B |
| To strive with tones forever mute | A |
| The dear old tunes to sing | B |
| What sadder fate could any heart befall | C |
| Alas dear child never to sing at all | C |
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| To sigh for pleasures flown | D |
| To weep for withered flowers | E |
| To count the blessings we have known | D |
| Lost with the vanished hours | E |
| What sadder fate could any heart befall | C |
| Alas dear child ne'er to have known them at all | C |
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| To dream of love and rest | F |
| To know the dream has past | G |
| To bear within an aching breast | F |
| Only a void at last | G |
| What sadder fate could any heart befall | C |
| Alas dear child ne'er to have loved at all | C |
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| To trust an unknown good | H |
| To hope but all in vain | I |
| Over a far off bliss to brood | J |
| Only to find it pain | I |
| What sadder fate could any soul befall | C |
| Alas dear child never to hope at all | C |
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