A Complaint On The Miseries Of Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEFEGHHIJIJKKLM LMFGNONOPQRSRSEE| I loathe O Lord this life below | A |
| And all its fading fleeting joys | B |
| 'Tis a short space that's fill'd with woe | A |
| Which all our bliss by far outweighs | C |
| When will the everlasting morn | D |
| With dawning light the skies adorn | D |
| Fitly this life's compared to night | E |
| When gloomy darkness shades the sky | F |
| Just like the morn's our glimmering light | E |
| Reflected from the Deity | G |
| When will celestial morn dispel | H |
| These dark surrounding shades of hell | H |
| I'm sick of this vexatious state | I |
| Where cares invade my peaceful hours | J |
| Strike the last blow O courteous fate | I |
| I'll smiling fall like mowed flowers | J |
| I'll gladly spurn this clogging clay | K |
| And sweetly singing soar away | K |
| What's money but refined dust | L |
| What's honours but an empty name | M |
| And what is soft enticing lust | L |
| But a consuming idle flame | M |
| Yea what is all beneath the sky | F |
| But emptiness and vanity | G |
| With thousand ills our life's oppress'd | N |
| There's nothing here worth living for | O |
| In the lone grave I long to rest | N |
| And be harass'd here no more | O |
| Where joy's fantastic grief's sincere | P |
| And where there's nought for which I care | Q |
| Thy word O Lord shall be my guide | R |
| Heaven where thou dwellest is my goal | S |
| Through corrupt life grant I may glide | R |
| With an untainted upward soul | S |
| Then may this life this dreary night | E |
| Dispelled be by morning light | E |
James Thomson
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