The Cup Of Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEFDEG| One after one the high emotions fade | A |
| Time's wheeling measure empties and refills | B |
| Year after year we seek no more the hills | B |
| That lured our youth divine and unafraid | A |
| But swarming on some common highway made | A |
| Beaten and smooth plod onward with blind feet | C |
| And only where the crowded crossways meet | C |
| We halt and question anxious and dismayed | A |
| Yet can we not escape it some we know | D |
| Have angered and grown mad some scornfully laughed | E |
| Yet surely to each lip to mine to thin | F |
| Comes with strange scent and pallid poisonous glow | D |
| The cup of Life that dull Circean draught | E |
| That taints us all and turns the half to swine | G |
Archibald Lampman
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