When Life Is Real Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNOP CQCQ RSRS TUTU VFVF| We rode we rode against the wind | A |
| The countless lights along the town | B |
| Made the town blacker for their fire | C |
| And you were always looking down | B |
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| To 'scape the blustering breath of March | D |
| Or was it for your mind's disguise | E |
| Still I could shut my eyes and see | F |
| The turquoise color of your eyes | E |
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| Surely your ermine furs were warm | G |
| And warm your flowing cloak of red | H |
| Was it the wild wind kept you thus | I |
| Pensive and with averted head | H |
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| I scarcely spoke my words were swept | J |
| Like winged things in the wind's despite | K |
| We rode and with what shadow speed | L |
| Across the darkness of the night | K |
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| Without a word without a look | M |
| What was the charm and what the spell | N |
| That made one hour of life become | O |
| A memory ever memorable | P |
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| All craft all labor all desire | C |
| All toil of age all hope of youth | Q |
| Are shadows from the fount of fire | C |
| And mummers of the truth | Q |
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| How bloodless books how pulseless art | R |
| Vain kingly and imperial zeal | S |
| Vain all memorials of the heart | R |
| When Life itself is real | S |
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| We traced the golden clouds of spring | T |
| We roved the beach we walked the land | U |
| What was the world A Phantom thing | T |
| That vanished in your hand | U |
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| You were as quiet as the sky | V |
| Your eyes were liquid as the sea | F |
| And in that hour that passed us by | V |
| We lived eternally | F |
Edgar Lee Masters
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