The Stream Of Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JEKE IACA LEME| O stream descending to the sea | A |
| Thy mossy banks between | B |
| The flow'rets blow the grasses grow | C |
| The leafy trees are green | B |
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| In garden plots the children play | D |
| The fields the labourers till | E |
| And houses stand on either hand | F |
| And thou descendest still | E |
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| O life descending into death | G |
| Our waking eyes behold | H |
| Parent and friend thy lapse attend | I |
| Companions young and old | H |
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| Strong purposes our mind possess | J |
| Our hearts affections fill | E |
| We toil and earn we seek and learn | K |
| And thou descendest still | E |
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| O end to which our currents tend | I |
| Inevitable sea | A |
| To which we flow what do we know | C |
| What shall we guess of thee | A |
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| A roar we hear upon thy shore | L |
| As we our course fulfil | E |
| Scarce we divine a sun will shine | M |
| And be above us still | E |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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