Uselessness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEDEED| Let mine not be that saddest fate of all | A |
| To live beyond my greater self to see | B |
| My faculties decaying as the tree | B |
| Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall | A |
| Let me hear rather the imperious call | A |
| Which all men dread in my glad morning time | C |
| And follow death ere I have reached my prime | C |
| Or drunk the strengthening cordial of life's gall | A |
| The lightning's stroke or the fierce tempest blast | D |
| Which fells the green tree to the earth to day | E |
| Is kinder than the calm that lets it last | D |
| Unhappy witness of its own decay | E |
| May no man ever look on me and say | E |
| She lives but all her usefulness is past | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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