Can Life Be A Blessing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABABAB AACDCDECan life be a blessing | A |
Or worth the possessing | A |
Can life be a blessing if love were away | B |
Ah no though our love all night keep us waking | A |
And though he torment us with cares all the day | B |
Yet he sweetens he sweetens our pains in the taking | A |
There's an hour at the last there's an hour to repay | B |
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In ev'ry possessing | A |
The ravishing blessing | A |
In ev'ry possessing the fruit of our pain | C |
Poor lovers forget long ages of anguish | D |
Whate'er they have suffer'd and done to obtain | C |
'Tis a pleasure a pleasure to sigh and to languish | D |
When we hope when we hope to be happy again | E |
John Dryden
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