The Psalm Of Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC ADAD EFEF GHGH IJIJ AAAA BKBK LMLN GAGA| What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist | A |
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| Tell me not in mournful numbers | B |
| Life is but an empty dream | C |
| For the soul is dead that slumbers | B |
| And things are not what they seem | C |
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| Life is real Life is earnest | A |
| And the grave is not its goal | D |
| Dust thou art to dust returnest | A |
| Was not spoken of the soul | D |
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| Not enjoyment and not sorrow | E |
| Is our destined end or way | F |
| But to act that each to morrow | E |
| Find us farther than to day | F |
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| Art is long and Time is fleeting | G |
| And our hearts though stout and brave | H |
| Still like muffled drums are beating | G |
| Funeral marches to the grave | H |
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| In the world's broad field of battle | I |
| In the bivouac of Life | J |
| Be not like dumb driven cattle | I |
| Be a hero in the strife | J |
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| Trust no future howe'er pleasant | A |
| Let the dead Past bury its dead | A |
| Act act in the living present | A |
| Heart within and God o'erhead | A |
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| Lives of great men all remind us | B |
| We can make our lives sublime | K |
| And departing leave behind us | B |
| Footprints on the sands of time | K |
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| Footprints that perhaps another | L |
| Sailing o'er life's solemn main | M |
| A forlorn and shipwrecked brother | L |
| Seeing shall take heart again | N |
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| Let us then be up and doing | G |
| With a heart for any fate | A |
| Still achieving still pursuing | G |
| Learn to labor and to wait | A |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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