Fame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCBBDDEEFBGG HIJKLMNOPOAQRR| If I should die to day | A |
| To morrow maybe the world would see | B |
| Would waken from sleep and say | A |
| Why here was talent why here was worth | C |
| Why here was a luminous light o' the earth | C |
| A soul as free | B |
| As the winds of the sea | B |
| To whom was given | D |
| A dower of heaven | D |
| And fame and name and glory belongs | E |
| To this dead singer of living songs | E |
| Bring hither a wreath for the bride of death | F |
| And so they would praise me and so they would raise me | B |
| Mayhap a column high over the bed | G |
| Where I should be lying all cold and dead | G |
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| But I am a living poet | H |
| Walking abroad in the sunlight of God | I |
| Not lying asleep where the clay worms creep | J |
| And the cold world will not show it | K |
| E'en when it sees that my song should please | L |
| But sneering says Avaunt with thy lays | M |
| Do not sing them and do not bring them | N |
| Into this rustling bustling life | O |
| We have no time for a jingling rhyme | P |
| In this scene of hurrying worrying strife | O |
| And so I say there is but one way | A |
| To win me a name and bring me fame | Q |
| And that is to die and be buried low | R |
| When the world would praise me an hour or so | R |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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