Our Lives Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBCB DBEB FBBB AGHH IBHB| Our lives are songs God writes the words | A |
| And we set them to music at pleasure | B |
| And the song grows glad or sweet or sad | C |
| As we choose to fashion the measure | B |
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| We must write the music whatever the song | D |
| Whatever its rhyme or metre | B |
| And if it is sad we can make it glad | C |
| Or if sweet we can make it sweeter | B |
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| One has a song that is free and strong | D |
| But the music he writes is minor | B |
| And the sad sad strain is replete with pain | E |
| And the singer becomes a repiner | B |
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| And he thinks God gave him a dirge like lay | F |
| Nor knows that the words are cheery | B |
| And the song seems lonely and solemn only | B |
| Because the music is dreary | B |
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| And the song of another has through the words | A |
| An under current of sadness | G |
| But he sets it to music of ringing chords | H |
| And makes it a pean of gladness | H |
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| So whether our songs are sad or not | I |
| We can give the world more pleasure | B |
| And better ourselves by setting the words | H |
| To a glad triumphant measure | B |
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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