Life Is Struggle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBAADDE AABBBFFGADDE| To wear out heart and nerves and brain | A |
| And give oneself a world of pain | A |
| Be eager angry fierce and hot | B |
| Imperious supple God knows what | C |
| For what's all one to have or not | B |
| O false unwise absurd and vain | A |
| For 'tis not joy it is not gain | A |
| It is not in itself a bliss | D |
| Only it is precisely this | D |
| That keeps us all alive | E |
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| To say we truly feel the pain | A |
| And quite are sinking with the strain | A |
| Entirely simply undeceived | B |
| Believe and say we ne'er believed | B |
| The object e'en were it achieved | B |
| A thing we e'er had cared to keep | F |
| With heart and soul to hold it cheap | F |
| And then to go and try it again | G |
| O false unwise absurd and vain | A |
| O 'tis not joy and 'tis not bliss | D |
| Only it is precisely this | D |
| That keeps us still alive | E |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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