Life's Key Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDD EFEEFGG HIHHJC KLKKLBB| The hand that fashioned me tuned my ear | A |
| To chord with the major key | B |
| In the darkest moments of life I hear | A |
| Strains of courage and hope and cheer | C |
| From choirs that I cannot see | B |
| And the music of life seems so inspired | D |
| That it will not let me grow sad or tired | D |
| - | |
| Yet through and under the major strain | E |
| I hear with the passing of years | F |
| The mournful minor measure of pain | E |
| Of souls that struggle and toil in vain | E |
| For a goal that never nears | F |
| And the sorrowful cadence of good gone wrong | G |
| Breaks more and more into earth's glad song | G |
| - | |
| And oft in the dark of the night I wake | H |
| And think of sorrowing lives | I |
| And I long to comfort the hearts that ache | H |
| To sweeten the cup that is bitter to take | H |
| And to strengthen each soul that strives | J |
| I long to cry to them 'Do not fear | C |
| Help is coming and aid is near ' | - |
| - | |
| However desolate weird or strange | K |
| Life's melody sounds to you | L |
| Before to morrow the air may change | K |
| And the Great Director of music arrange | K |
| A programme perfectly new | L |
| And the dirge in minor may suddenly be | B |
| Turned into a jubilant song of glee | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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