The Poetry Of Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDECCFFCGG HIHIHJKKJLMNMOOPPQQR R| Who would himself with shadows entertain | A |
| Or gild his life with lights that shine in vain | A |
| Or nurse false hopes that do but cheat the true | B |
| Though with my dream my heaven should be resigned | C |
| Though the free pinioned soul that once could dwell | D |
| In the large empire of the possible | E |
| This workday life with iron chains may bind | C |
| Yet thus the mastery o'er ourselves we find | C |
| And solemn duty to our acts decreed | F |
| Meets us thus tutored in the hour of need | F |
| With a more sober and submissive mind | C |
| How front necessity yet bid thy youth | G |
| Shun the mild rule of life's calm sovereign truth | G |
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| So speakest thou friend how stronger far than I | H |
| As from experience that sure port serene | I |
| Thou lookest and straight a coldness wraps the sky | H |
| The summer glory withers from the scene | I |
| Scared by the solemn spell behold them fly | H |
| The godlike images that seemed so fair | J |
| Silent the playful Muse the rosy hours | K |
| Halt in their dance and the May breathing flowers | K |
| Fall from the sister graces' waving hair | J |
| Sweet mouthed Apollo breaks his golden lyre | L |
| Hermes the wand with many a marvel rife | M |
| The veil rose woven by the young desire | N |
| With dreams drops from the hueless cheeks of life | M |
| The world seems what it is a grave and love | O |
| Casts down the bondage wound his eyes above | O |
| And sees He sees but images of clay | P |
| Where he dreamed gods and sighs and glides away | P |
| The youngness of the beautiful grows old | Q |
| And on thy lips the bride's sweet kiss seems cold | Q |
| And in the crowd of joys upon thy throne | R |
| Thou sittest in state and hardenest into stone | R |
Friedrich Schiller
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