All Is Vanity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGHGIJIJ KLKLMNMN OPOPQRQS TRTRUVWV XLXLYZA2Z B2C2B2C2EBE| FROM all that I have seen or heard | A |
| This world is but an empty show | B |
| And only can the heart afford | C |
| What tends to bitter strife and woe | B |
| Nay in its clutch do what we will | D |
| Upon our erring steps attend | E |
| Annoyance and vexation still | D |
| To cross and wrack us to the end | E |
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| That bubble frail in sheen unmatched | F |
| Attracted by its radiance rare | G |
| Do we stretch out our hand to snatch't | H |
| The jewel melts into the air | G |
| So will the golden wish we prize | I |
| Seem all but in our fingers locked | J |
| And then evanish from our eyes | I |
| And leave us tantalized and mocked | J |
| - | |
| Does glory captivate the soul | K |
| Do we for bay or laurel crave | L |
| And do we seek the distant goal | K |
| Assured the prize is for the brave | L |
| Years roll away and life is past | M |
| And in the end what at the most | N |
| For sleepless nights and labours vast | M |
| What have we but a blank to boast | N |
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| To drink we fly in woe and drunk | O |
| Is thus what makes us fools in fact | P |
| Down to a lower level sunk | O |
| The brute in brutal acts to act | P |
| Again becoming self possess'd | Q |
| What rankles in his bosom ay | R |
| What but a ten times direr pest | Q |
| Than that from which we strove to fly | S |
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| By beauty's dazzling spells beset | T |
| The strong the weak the grave the gay | R |
| On locks of gold on eyes of jet | T |
| May dream the transient hours away | R |
| May dream to wake and what to learn | U |
| Those locks are worse than serpents fell | V |
| Those eyes but fires of hate and scorn | W |
| Ordained to make our life a hell | V |
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| The supple knee we yield to gold | X |
| And seek for happiness in pelf | L |
| And what's our gain but cares untold | X |
| And what's our loss but manhood's self | L |
| We lose what gold has never bought | Y |
| We gain but what degrades the man | Z |
| And for the happiness thus sought | A2 |
| We yet may find it when we can | Z |
| - | |
| Deluded still are we and should | B2 |
| We grasp at last the boon esteemed | C2 |
| The victim of a ban then would | B2 |
| We deem it other than we deemed | C2 |
| Then let thy vain endeavour end | E |
| Its promised blessings let them go | B |
| Unto thy spirit's weal attend | E |
| This world is but an empty show ' | - |
Joseph Skipsey
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