The Better Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ| Harsh thoughts blind angers and fierce hands | A |
| That keep this restless world at strife | B |
| Mean passions that like choking sands | A |
| Perplex the stream of life | B |
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| Pride and hot envy and cold greed | C |
| The cankers of the loftier will | D |
| What if ye triumph and yet bleed | C |
| Ah can ye not be still | D |
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| Oh shall there be no space no time | E |
| No century of weal in store | F |
| No freehold in a nobler clime | E |
| Where men shall strive no more | F |
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| Where every motion of the heart | G |
| Shall serve the spirit's master call | H |
| Where self shall be the unseen part | G |
| And human kindness all | H |
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| Or shall we but by fits and gleams | I |
| Sink satisfied and cease to rave | J |
| Find love but in the rest of dreams | I |
| And peace but in the grave | J |
Archibald Lampman
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