Life's Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM| Life's day is too brief he said at dawn | A |
| I would it were ten times longer | B |
| For great tasks wait for me further on | C |
| At noonday the wish was stronger | B |
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| His place was in the thick of the strife | D |
| And hopes were nearing completeness | E |
| While one was crowning the joys of life | D |
| With love's own wonderful sweetness | E |
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| Life's day is too brief for all it contains | F |
| The triumphs the fighting the proving | G |
| The hopes and desires the joys and the pains | F |
| Too brief for the hating and loving | G |
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| To night he sits in the shadows gray | H |
| While heavily sorrow presses | I |
| O the long long day O the weary day | H |
| With its failures and successes | I |
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| He sits in the shadows and turns his eyes | J |
| On the years that lie behind him | K |
| I am tired of all things now he cries | J |
| And the hot tears rise and blind him | K |
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| Rest and stillness is all that I crave | L |
| Such robbing of strength has grief done | M |
| Make room dear love in your lowly grave | L |
| Life's day thank God is a brief one | M |
Jean Blewett
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