All Is Vanity, Saieth The Preacher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEDE AFEFEEGEG AGHGHEGEG| I | A |
| Fame wisdom love and power were mine | B |
| And health and youth possess'd me | C |
| My goblets blush'd from every vine | B |
| And lovely forms caress'd me | C |
| I sunn'd my heart in beauty's eyes | D |
| And felt my soul grow tender | E |
| All earth can give or mortal prize | D |
| Was mine of regal splendour | E |
| - | |
| II | A |
| I strive to number o'er what days | F |
| Remembrance can discover | E |
| Which all that life or earth displays | F |
| Would lure me to live over | E |
| There rose no day there roll'd no hour | E |
| Of pleasure unembitter'd | G |
| And not a trapping deck'd my power | E |
| That gall'd not while it glitter'd | G |
| - | |
| III | A |
| The serpent of the field by art | G |
| And spells is won from harming | H |
| But that which coils around the heart | G |
| Oh who hath pwer of charming | H |
| It will not list to wisdom's lore | E |
| Nor music's voice can lure it | G |
| But there it stings for evermore | E |
| The soul that must endure it | G |
George Gordon Byron
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