Life Is A Privilege Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEEEFFEE EEGGHHII JJKKLLMM

Life is a privilege Its youthful daysA
Shine with the radiance of continuous MaysA
To live to breathe to wonder and desireB
To feed with dreams the heart s perpetual fireB
To thrill with virtuous passions and to glowC
With great ambitions in one hour to knowC
The depths and heights of feeling God in truthD
How beautiful how beautiful is youthD
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Life is a privilege Like some rare roseE
The mysteries of the human mind uncloseE
What marvels lie in the earth and air and seaE
What stores of knowledge wait our opening keyE
What sunny roads of happiness lead outF
Beyond the realms of indolence and doubtF
And what large pleasures smile upon and blessE
The busy avenues of usefulnessE
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Life is a privilege Thought the noontide fadesE
And shadows fall along the winding gladesE
Though joy blooms wither in the autumn airG
Yet the sweet scent of sympathy is thereG
Pale sorrow leads us closer to our kindH
And in the serious hours of life we findH
Depths in the souls of men which lend new worthI
And majesty to this brief span of earthI
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Life is a privilege If some sad fateJ
Sends us alone to seek the exit gateJ
If men forsake us and as shadows fallK
Still does the supreme privilege of allK
Come in that reaching upward of the soulL
To find the welcoming Presence at the goalL
And in the Knowledge that our feet have trodM
Paths that led from and must wind back to GodM

Ella Wheeler Wilcox



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