If This Were All Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHFIJKLK EMNMOPFP BQRQAESE| If this were all of life we'll know | A |
| If this brief space of breath | B |
| Were all there is to human toil | C |
| If death were really death | B |
| And never should the soul arise | D |
| A finer world to see | E |
| How foolish would our struggles seem | F |
| How grim the earth would be | E |
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| If living were the whole of life | G |
| To end in seventy years | H |
| How pitiful its joys would seem | F |
| How idle all its tears | I |
| There'd be no faith to keep us true | J |
| No hope to keep us strong | K |
| And only fools would cherish dreams | L |
| No smile would last for long | K |
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| How purposeless the strife would be | E |
| If there were nothing more | M |
| If there were not a plan to serve | N |
| An end to struggle for | M |
| No reason for a mortal's birth | O |
| Except to have him die | P |
| How silly all the goals would seem | F |
| For which men bravely try | P |
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| There must be something after death | B |
| Behind the toil of man | Q |
| There must exist a God divine | R |
| Who's working out a plan | Q |
| And this brief journey that we know | A |
| As life must really be | E |
| The gateway to a finer world | S |
| That some day we shall see | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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