Solitude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE AGDGHIJI KLMLDNON| Laugh and the world laughs with you | A |
| Weep and you weep alone | B |
| For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth | C |
| But has trouble enough of its own | B |
| Sing and the hills will answer | D |
| Sigh it is lost on the air | E |
| The echoes bound to a joyful sound | F |
| But shrink from voicing care | E |
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| Rejoice and men will seek you | A |
| Grieve and they turn and go | G |
| They want full measure of all your pleasure | D |
| But they do not need your woe | G |
| Be glad and your friends are many | H |
| Be sad and you lose them all | I |
| There are none to decline your nectared wine | J |
| But alone you must drink life's gall | I |
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| Feast and your halls are crowded | K |
| Fast and the world goes by | L |
| Succeed and give and it helps you live | M |
| But no man can help you die | L |
| There is room in the halls of pleasure | D |
| For a large and lordly train | N |
| But one by one we must all file on | O |
| Through the narrow aisles of pain | N |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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