Ashes Of Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG| Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike | A |
| Eat I must and sleep I will and would that night were here | B |
| But ah to lie awake and hear the slow hours strike | A |
| Would that it were day again with twilight near | C |
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| Love has gone and left me and I don't know what to do | D |
| This or that or what you will is all the same to me | E |
| But all the things that I begin I leave before I'm through | D |
| There's little use in anything as far as I can see | E |
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| Love has gone and left me and the neighbors knock and borrow | F |
| And life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse | G |
| And to morrow and to morrow and to morrow and to morrow | F |
| There's this little street and this little house | G |
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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