Vanity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DECF CBGB EBHBE BHCB ICH JK CLKEWhy all these toil and tussle tear us apart | A |
We're here today gone tomorrow | B |
Life's but a fleeting shadows | C |
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Thrones shall tumble | D |
And the fields another be | E |
Whereat Solomon's ilks | C |
O' world's but the potter's will | F |
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Look the lustre lilies | C |
Springing in the meadow | B |
Splendour of a thousand eyes stare | G |
Tis a stack of hay at eventide | B |
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The rich's glory on the poor's misery | E |
The world's unfairly just | B |
Someday shall the pen grow barren | H |
And the sword impotent | B |
O' life's but a mystery | E |
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Up the castle a pile of miner's gold | B |
Yet rideth none to Elysian | H |
Whence misery gives a cold embrace | C |
Wealth's but a fleeing bird | B |
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The world's a little stage goodness shall keep names alive | I |
O' ants and nature shall teach us virtues | C |
Of lore than pedagogs can | H |
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Whence strife an inferno upon a thatched roof | J |
Up up man to a reconcile table with our Maker | K |
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When nature trumps | C |
Hills and vales shall bow | L |
And the hoes and sceptre wither | K |
O' life's but vanity | E |
Eferebo Chibuzor
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