Why Should We Sigh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CBCCB DBEEB ABAAB| Why should we sigh o'er a summer that's dead | A |
| Let us think of the summer to be | B |
| It always better to look ahead | A |
| For the rose will come again just as red | A |
| And just as fair to see | B |
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| Why should we weep o'er a pleasure past | C |
| Let us look for the pleasure to be | B |
| New shells on the shore by new waves are cast | C |
| Let us prize each new joy more than the last | C |
| And laugh if the old joy flee | B |
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| What folly to die for a love that was | D |
| Let us live for the one to be | B |
| For time is passing and will not pause | E |
| How foolish the shore were it sad because | E |
| One wave ebbed out to sea | B |
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| Then let us not sing of a year that is fled | A |
| Though dear its memory be | B |
| For though summer and pleasure and love seem dead | A |
| Love will be sweet and the rose will be red | A |
| When they blossom for you and me | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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