The Sweetness Of Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCAAA CDADEFGFHBAB CIAICJAJHCAC CKCKHCAC| It fell on a day I was happy | A |
| And the winds the concave sky | B |
| The flowers and the beasts in the meadow | C |
| Seemed happy even as I | B |
| And I stretched my hands to the meadow | C |
| To the bird the beast the tree | A |
| Why are ye all so happy | A |
| I cried and they answered me | A |
| - | |
| What sayest thou Oh meadow | C |
| That stretchest so wide so far | D |
| That none can say how many | A |
| Thy misty marguerites are | D |
| And what say ye red roses | E |
| That o'er the sun blanched wall | F |
| From your high black shadowed trellis | G |
| Like flame or blood drops fall | F |
| We are born we are reared and we linger | H |
| A various space and die | B |
| We dream and are bright and happy | A |
| But we cannot answer why | B |
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| What sayest thou Oh shadow | C |
| That from the dreaming hill | I |
| All down the broadening valley | A |
| Liest so sharp and still | I |
| And thou Oh murmuring brooklet | C |
| Whereby in the noonday gleam | J |
| The loosestrife burns like ruby | A |
| And the branched asters dream | J |
| We are born we are reared and we linger | H |
| A various space and die | C |
| We dream and are very happy | A |
| But we cannot answer why | C |
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| And then of myself I questioned | C |
| That like a ghost the while | K |
| Stood from me and calmly answered | C |
| With slow and curious smile | K |
| Thou art born as the flowers and wilt linger | H |
| Thine own short space and die | C |
| Thou dream'st and art strangely happy | A |
| But thou canst not answer why | C |
Archibald Lampman
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