Sic Vita Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACB CDECED FCGFGC HIJHJI KLMKML NCONOC CPQCQR| I am a parcel of vain strivings tied | A |
| By a chance bond together | B |
| Dangling this way and that their links | C |
| Were made so loose and wide | A |
| Methinks | C |
| For milder weather | B |
| - | |
| A bunch of violets without their roots | C |
| And sorrel intermixed | D |
| Encircled by a wisp of straw | E |
| Once coiled about their shoots | C |
| The law | E |
| By which I'm fixed | D |
| - | |
| A nosegay which Time clutched from out | F |
| Those fair Elysian fields | C |
| With weeds and broken stems in haste | G |
| Doth make the rabble rout | F |
| That waste | G |
| The day he yields | C |
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| And here I bloom for a short hour unseen | H |
| Drinking my juices up | I |
| With no root in the land | J |
| To keep my branches green | H |
| But stand | J |
| In a bare cup | I |
| - | |
| Some tender buds were left upon my stem | K |
| In mimicry of life | L |
| But ah the children will not know | M |
| Till time has withered them | K |
| The woe | M |
| With which they're rife | L |
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| But now I see I was not plucked for naught | N |
| And after in life's vase | C |
| Of glass set while I might survive | O |
| But by a kind hand brought | N |
| Alive | O |
| To a strange place | C |
| - | |
| That stock thus thinned will soon redeem its hours | C |
| And by another year | P |
| Such as God knows with freer air | Q |
| More fruits and fairer flowers | C |
| Will bear | Q |
| While I droop here | R |
Henry David Thoreau
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