What's The Use? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBC DDEEC FFGGC HHEEC IIJJC| Oh What is living but moving about | A |
| Buoyed up with hope and crushed down by doubt | A |
| What is the draught of breath we harp on as life | B |
| Naught but a sip of peace a cup full of strife | B |
| What's the use | C |
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| What is the place we call our home sweet home | D |
| Naught but a span of space where one may roam | D |
| Night's pitchy corner a hard crust of bread | E |
| Cot for your feeble limbs pillow your head | E |
| What's the use | C |
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| Now what is loving but acting a fool | F |
| And what is quitting Producing a rule | F |
| Break short the flight of Dan Cupid's swift dart | G |
| Aimed at the core of an innocent heart | G |
| What's the use | C |
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| Say what is marrying but getting in trouble | H |
| Trifling 'way joy while your sorrow is double | H |
| What then is your state my friend after you've wed | E |
| Naught but a vial of wrath poured upon your head | E |
| What's the use | C |
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| Ah what is batching but living a man | I |
| Sporting and sleeping just running his plan | I |
| Come when he's ready and go when he please | J |
| Brain's full of joy his heart is at ease | J |
| See that's the use | C |
Edward Smyth Jones
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