Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KDKD| All in the dark we grope along | A |
| And if we go amiss | B |
| We learn at least which path is wrong | A |
| And there is gain in this | B |
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| We do not always win the race | C |
| By only running right | D |
| We have to tread the mountain's base | C |
| Before we reach its height | D |
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| The Christs alone no errors made | E |
| So often had they trod | F |
| The paths that lead through light and shade | E |
| They had become as God | F |
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| As Krishna Buddha Christ again | G |
| They passed along the way | H |
| And left those mighty truths which men | G |
| But dimly grasp to day | H |
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| But he who loves himself the last | I |
| And knows the use of pain | J |
| Though strewn with errors all his past | I |
| He surely shall attain | J |
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| Some souls there are that needs must taste | K |
| Of wrong ere choosing right | D |
| We should not call those years a waste | K |
| Which led us to the light | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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