Life Is A Privilege Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEEEFFEE EEGGHHII JJKKLLMM| Life is a privilege Its youthful days | A |
| Shine with the radiance of continuous Mays | A |
| To live to breathe to wonder and desire | B |
| To feed with dreams the heart s perpetual fire | B |
| To thrill with virtuous passions and to glow | C |
| With great ambitions in one hour to know | C |
| The depths and heights of feeling God in truth | D |
| How beautiful how beautiful is youth | D |
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| Life is a privilege Like some rare rose | E |
| The mysteries of the human mind unclose | E |
| What marvels lie in the earth and air and sea | E |
| What stores of knowledge wait our opening key | E |
| What sunny roads of happiness lead out | F |
| Beyond the realms of indolence and doubt | F |
| And what large pleasures smile upon and bless | E |
| The busy avenues of usefulness | E |
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| Life is a privilege Thought the noontide fades | E |
| And shadows fall along the winding glades | E |
| Though joy blooms wither in the autumn air | G |
| Yet the sweet scent of sympathy is there | G |
| Pale sorrow leads us closer to our kind | H |
| And in the serious hours of life we find | H |
| Depths in the souls of men which lend new worth | I |
| And majesty to this brief span of earth | I |
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| Life is a privilege If some sad fate | J |
| Sends us alone to seek the exit gate | J |
| If men forsake us and as shadows fall | K |
| Still does the supreme privilege of all | K |
| Come in that reaching upward of the soul | L |
| To find the welcoming Presence at the goal | L |
| And in the Knowledge that our feet have trod | M |
| Paths that led from and must wind back to God | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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