Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGFG| Life thou art misery or as such to me | A |
| One name serves both or I no difference see | A |
| Tho' some there live would call thee heaven below | B |
| But that's a nickname I've not learn'd to know | B |
| A wretch with poverty and pains replete | C |
| Where even useless stones beneath his feet | C |
| Cannot be gather'd up to say they're mine | D |
| Sees little heaven in a life like thine | D |
| Hope lends a sorry shelter from thy storms | E |
| And largely promises but small performs | E |
| O irksome life were but this hour my last | F |
| This weary breath fain sighs for its decay | G |
| O that my soul death's dreary vale had past | F |
| And met the sunshine of a better day | G |
John Clare
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