Life In Nature Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DCDCEE FGFGHH IJIIKL MNONHH| Life grows not more nor less it is but force | A |
| And only changes | B |
| Expended here it takes another course | A |
| And ever ranges | B |
| Throughout this circling universe of ours | C |
| Now quickening man now in his grave grown flowers | C |
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| Yet dwells life not alone in man and beast | D |
| And budding flowers | C |
| It lurks in all things from the very least | D |
| Gleam in dark bowers | C |
| Of the great sun through stones and sea and air | E |
| Up to ourselves in Nature everywhere | E |
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| Life differs from the soul This is beyond | F |
| The realms of science | G |
| God and mankind it joins in closest bond | F |
| And bids defiance | G |
| To Death and Change By faith alone confessed | H |
| It dwells within our bodies as a guest | H |
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| The germ of life sleeps in the aged hills | I |
| And stately rivets | J |
| And wakes into the life our hearts that thrills | I |
| And in leaves quivers | I |
| The universe is one great reservoir | K |
| From which man draws of thinking life his store | L |
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| And therefore is it that the weary brain | M |
| That seeks communion | N |
| With Nature in her haunts finds strength again | O |
| In that close union | N |
| She is our mother and the mind distressed | H |
| Drinks a new draught of life at her loved breast | H |
Arthur Weir
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