The Singer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHG IJIJ KLKL MBNB| The singer only sang the Joy of Life | A |
| For all too well alas the singer knew | B |
| How hard the daily toil how keen the strife | A |
| How salt the falling tear the joys how few | B |
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| He who thinks hard soon finds it hard to live | C |
| Learning the Secret Bitterness of Things | D |
| So leaving thought the singer strove to give | E |
| A level lightness to his lyric strings | D |
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| He only sang of Love its joy and pain | F |
| But each man in his early season loves | G |
| Each finds the old lost Paradise again | H |
| Unfolding leaves and roses nesting doves | G |
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| And though that sunlit time flies all too fleetly | I |
| Delightful Days that dance away too soon | J |
| Its early morning freshness lingers sweetly | I |
| Throughout life's grey and tedious afternoon | J |
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| And he whose dreams enshrine her tender eyes | K |
| And she whose senses wait his waking hand | L |
| Impatient youth that tired but sleepless lies | K |
| Will read perhaps and reading understand | L |
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| Oh roseate lips he would have loved to kiss | M |
| Oh eager lovers that he never knew | B |
| What should you know of him or words of his | N |
| But all the songs he sang were sung for you | B |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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