Life's Trilogy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG HIHIHH JHJHKL MNMNOO PQPQHH JRJRSS TUTUVW XYXYZZ GA2GA2HH JB2JB2PPYouth dreams of all the years shall hold | A |
Of poems writ of battles won | B |
Of statues made of love of gold | A |
And honors added one by one | B |
How sweet the song of Hope if sung | C |
When life is young | C |
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Man's dreams are stern and few indeed | D |
His youthful aims he finds despised | E |
For in a world of strife and greed | D |
Ideals must be sacrificed | F |
Alas there is so little time | G |
In manhood's prime | G |
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Age dreams of what the years have brought | H |
The blots upon life's tear dimmed scroll | I |
The brave attempts that came to naught | H |
The unsolved problems of the soul | I |
How sadly is the tale retold | H |
When life is old | H |
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Youth Manhood Age the fatal Three | J |
Illusion Struggle and Regret | H |
So hath it been so shall it be | J |
And to what end We know not yet | H |
Still sweeps the mighty life flood on | K |
Now here now gone | L |
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Seed bud florescence and decay | M |
In nature races nations men | N |
Nay Earth itself shall fail one day | M |
To feed its freezing brood What then | N |
Successive cycles vast and small | O |
Can these be all | O |
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Do all these swirls of suns and souls | P |
Of spirit keen and senseless stone | Q |
Speed on to no appointed goals | P |
Like sand along the desert blown | Q |
Forever born from out the void | H |
To be destroyed | H |
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Nay Reason shocked at anarchy | J |
Demands an author and an aim | R |
Seeks ever for the master key | J |
To solve the mystery Whence came | R |
This starlit sea of Evermore | S |
Without a shore | S |
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And whence comes Life that occult Force | T |
So rich in its prolific range | U |
So frail and swift to run its course | T |
Yet deathless in protean change | U |
Must we not hope that Death will clear | V |
The darkness here | W |
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Such hopes appear of little worth | X |
When peering through our planet's bars | Y |
We picture this our tiny Earth | X |
Amid that wilderness of stars | Y |
Yet in those sun strewn depths of space | Z |
It hath its place | Z |
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Its rhythmic motion tuned to time | G |
Its awful rush yet sure return | A2 |
Make even our dim orb sublime | G |
And we at last the truth discern | A2 |
With God is neither small nor great | H |
Nor soon nor late | H |
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Unconscious actors it may be | J |
That here we painfully rehearse | B2 |
In parts whose plots we do not see | J |
Some drama of the universe | B2 |
Advanced as nobler grow our souls | P |
To loftier roles | P |
John L. Stoddard
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