Life's Lesson Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHCC| Life is a ponderous lesson book and Fate | A |
| The teacher When I came to love's fair leaf | B |
| My teacher turned the page and bade me wait | A |
| 'Learn first ' she said 'love's grief' | B |
| And o'er and o'er through many a long tomorrow | C |
| She kept me conning that sad page of sorrow | C |
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| Cruel the task and yet it was not vain | D |
| Now the great book of life I know by heart | E |
| In that one lesson of love's loss and pain | D |
| Fate doth the whole impart | E |
| For by the depths of woe the mind can measure | F |
| The beauteous unscaled summits of love's pleasure | F |
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| Now with the book of life upon her knee | G |
| Fate sits the unread page of love's delight | H |
| By her firm hand is half concealed from me | G |
| And half revealed to sight | H |
| Ah Fate be kind so well I learned love's sorrow | C |
| Give me its full delight to learn tomorrow | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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