Life Is Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ AEAE EKEK CLCL| Is anyone sad in the world I wonder | A |
| Does anyone weep on a day like this | B |
| With the sun above and the green earth under | A |
| Why what is life but a dream of bliss | B |
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| With the sun and the skies and the birds above me | C |
| Birds that sing as they wheel and fly | D |
| With the winds to follow and say they loved me | C |
| Who could be lonely O ho not I | D |
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| Somebody said in the street this morning | E |
| As I opened my window to let in the light | F |
| That the darkest day of the world was dawning | E |
| But I looked and the East was a gorgeous sight | F |
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| One who claims that he knows about it | G |
| Tells me the Earth is a vale of sin | H |
| But I and the bees and the birds we doubt it | G |
| And think it a world worth living in | H |
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| Someone says that hearts are fickle | I |
| That love is sorrow that life is care | J |
| And the reaper Death with his shining sickle | I |
| Gathers whatever is bright and fair | J |
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| I told the thrush and we laughed together | A |
| Laughed till the woods were all a ring | E |
| And he said to me as he plumed each feather | A |
| Well people must croak if they cannot sing | E |
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| Up he flew but his song remaining | E |
| Rang like a bell in my heart all day | K |
| And silenced the voices of weak complaining | E |
| That pipe like insects along the way | K |
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| O world of light and O world of beauty | C |
| Where are there pleasures so sweet as thine | L |
| Yes life is love and love is duty | C |
| And what heart sorrows O no not mine | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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