Life's Trilogy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG HIHIHH JHJHKL MNMNOO PQPQHH JRJRSS TUTUVW XYXYZZ GA2GA2HH JB2JB2PP| Youth 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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