The Goblet Of Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAB CCCCB DDDDE FFFFF GGGGH FFFFH IJIIK BBBBL FFFFM NNNNM FOFOF PPPPF| Filled is Life's goblet to the brim | A |
| And though my eyes with tears are dim | A |
| I see its sparkling bubbles swim | A |
| And chant a melancholy hymn | A |
| With solemn voice and slow | B |
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| No purple flowers no garlands green | C |
| Conceal the goblet's shade or sheen | C |
| Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene | C |
| Like gleams of sunshine flash between | C |
| Thick leaves of mistletoe | B |
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| This goblet wrought with curious art | D |
| Is filled with waters that upstart | D |
| When the deep fountains of the heart | D |
| By strong convulsions rent apart | D |
| Are running all to waste | E |
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| And as it mantling passes round | F |
| With fennel is it wreathed and crowned | F |
| Whose seed and foliage sun imbrowned | F |
| Are in its waters steeped and drowned | F |
| And give a bitter taste | F |
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| Above the lowly plants it towers | G |
| The fennel with its yellow flowers | G |
| And in an earlier age than ours | G |
| Was gifted with the wondrous powers | G |
| Lost vision to restore | H |
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| It gave new strength and fearless mood | F |
| And gladiators fierce and rude | F |
| Mingled it in their daily food | F |
| And he who battled and subdued | F |
| A wreath of fennel wore | H |
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| Then in Life's goblet freely press | I |
| The leaves that give it bitterness | J |
| Nor prize the colored waters less | I |
| For in thy darkness and distress | I |
| New light and strength they give | K |
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| And he who has not learned to know | B |
| How false its sparkling bubbles show | B |
| How bitter are the drops of woe | B |
| With which its brim may overflow | B |
| He has not learned to live | L |
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| The prayer of Ajax was for light | F |
| Through all that dark and desperate fight | F |
| The blackness of that noonday night | F |
| He asked but the return of sight | F |
| To see his foeman's face | M |
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| Let our unceasing earnest prayer | N |
| Be too for light for strength to bear | N |
| Our portion of the weight of care | N |
| That crushes into dumb despair | N |
| One half the human race | M |
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| O suffering sad humanity | F |
| O ye afflicted one who lie | O |
| Steeped to the lips in misery | F |
| Longing and yet afraid to die | O |
| Patient though sorely tried | F |
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| I pledge you in this cup of grief | P |
| Where floats the fennel's bitter leaf | P |
| The Battle of our Life is brief | P |
| The alarm the struggle the relief | P |
| Then sleep we side by side | F |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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