Henry David Thoreau

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I Am A Parcel Of Vain Strivings Tied Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCACB CDECED FCGFGC HIJHJI KLMKML NCONOC CPQCQR

I am a parcel of vain strivings tiedA
By a chance bond togetherB
Dangling this way and that their linksC
Were made so loose and wideA
MethinksC
For milder weatherB
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A bunch of violets without their rootsC
And sorrel intermixedD
Encircled by a wisp of strawE
Once coiled about their shootsC
The lawE
By which I'm fixedD
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A nosegay which Time clutched from outF
Those fair Elysian fieldsC
With weeds and broken stems in hasteG
Doth make the rabble routF
That wasteG
The day he yieldsC
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And here I bloom for a short hour unseenH
Drinking my juices upI
With no root in the landJ
To keep my branches greenH
But standJ
In a bare cupI
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Some tender buds were left upon my stemK
In mimicry of lifeL
But ah the children will not knowM
Till time has withered themK
The woeM
With which they're rifeL
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But now I see I was not plucked for naughtN
And after in life's vaseC
Of glass set while I might surviveO
But by a kind hand broughtN
AliveO
To a strange placeC
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That stock thus thinned will soon redeem its hoursC
And by another yearP
Such as God knows with freer airQ
More fruits and fairer flowersC
Will bearQ
While I droop hereR

Henry David Thoreau



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