The Will To Live Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABACCDD EFFEGHHG IJJIKKJJLLMMNNNOOO PPQQRR STUUTVWWXXYYOO| Since Faith is a veil that has nothing behind it | A |
| And Hope wanders lost where no mortal can find it | A |
| Since Love is a mirror we break in a minute | B |
| In snatching the image our soul has cast in it | A |
| What is the use of the Summers and Springs | C |
| The wave of the woods and the waft of the wings | C |
| Since all means nothing and good things and ill | D |
| Make madness a mirage tormenting us still | D |
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| Since all the fighting the ardent endeavour | E |
| The heart cast bleeding to feed the Ideal | F |
| Are vain vain vain and the one thing real | F |
| Is that all's vain for ever and ever | E |
| Why then be a man and stand back from the strife | G |
| Fall by the sword but keep out of the snare | H |
| Will but to be and be willing to bear | H |
| All that the gods may lay on your of life | G |
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| In the far East where light ever dawns first | I |
| There has man learned how the Fates may be cheated | J |
| How by our craft may their strength be defeated | J |
| Though all our best be no match for their worst | I |
| Kill the desire that they set in your bosom | K |
| Long not for fruit when you gaze on the blossom | K |
| Dream not of flowers when you gaze on the bud | J |
| Kill all the rebels that shout in your blood | J |
| Sorrow and sickness disease and decay | L |
| These toll the hours of Life's desolate day | L |
| Hopes unfulfilled and forbidden delight | M |
| These are the dreams of Life's treacherous night | M |
| So let me image an infinite peace | N |
| Touched with no joy but the ease of release | N |
| Out of the eddies I climb and I cease | N |
| Keeping in change for this man's soul of me | O |
| Something which by the eternal decree | O |
| Is as like Nothing as Something can be | O |
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| Not to desire to admit to adore | P |
| Casting the robe of the soul that you wore | P |
| Just as the soul casts the body's robe down | Q |
| This is man's destiny this is man's crown | Q |
| This is the splendour the end of the feast | R |
| This is the light of the Star in the East | R |
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| So Silence reconciles Life's jarring phrases | S |
| Far in the future austere and august | T |
| Meanwhile the buds of the poplars are falling | U |
| Spring's on the lawn and a little voice calling | U |
| Daddy come out Daddy darling you must | T |
| Daddy come out and help Molly pick daisies | V |
| And since one's here and the Spring's in the garden | W |
| How many lives hence will that thought earn pardon | W |
| Since one's a man and man's heart is insistent | X |
| And since Nirvana is doubtful and distant | X |
| Though life's a hard road and thorny to travel | Y |
| Stones in the borders and grass on the gravel | Y |
| Still there's the wisdom that wise men call folly | O |
| Still one can go and pick daisies with Molly | O |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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