Life And I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDCD EFEG FHFH IJIK FLFL IMIM EKEK| Life and I are lovers straying | A |
| Arm in arm along | B |
| Often like two children Maying | B |
| Full of mirth and song | B |
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| Life plucks all the blooming hours | C |
| Growing by the way | D |
| Binds them on my brow like flowers | C |
| Calls me Queen of May | D |
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| Then again in rainy weather | E |
| We sit vis a vis | F |
| Planning work we'll do together | E |
| In the years to be | G |
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| Sometimes Life denies me blisses | F |
| And I frown or pout | H |
| But we make it up with kisses | F |
| Ere the day is out | H |
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| Woman like I sometimes grieve him | I |
| Try his trust and faith | J |
| Saying I shall one day leave him | I |
| For his rival Death | K |
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| Then he always grows more zealous | F |
| Tender and more true | L |
| Loves the more for being jealous | F |
| As all lovers do | L |
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| Though I swear by stars above him | I |
| And by worlds beyond | M |
| That I love him love him love him | I |
| Though my heart is fond | M |
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| Though he gives me doth my lover | E |
| Kisses with each breath | K |
| I shall one day throw him over | E |
| And plight troth with Death | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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