Life And I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDCD EFEG FHFH IJIK FLFL IMIM EKEKLife 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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