Life A Cheat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFGHH| When I consider life 'tis all a cheat | A |
| Yet fooled with hope men favour the deceit | A |
| Trust on and think to morrow will repay | B |
| To morrow's falser than the former day | B |
| Lies worse and while it says we shall be blessed | C |
| With some new joys cuts off what we possessed | C |
| Strange cozenage none would live past years again | D |
| Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain | E |
| And from the dregs of life think to receive | F |
| What the first sprightly running could not give | G |
| I'm tired with waiting for this chemic gold | H |
| Which fools us young and beggars us when old | H |
John Dryden
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