The Old Dust Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJ| The living is a passing traveler | A |
| The dead a man come home | B |
| One brief journey betwixt heaven and earth | C |
| Then alas we are the same old dust of ten thousand ages | D |
| The rabbit in the moon pounds the medicine in vain | E |
| Fu sang the tree of immortality has crumbled to kindling wood | F |
| Man dies his white bones are dumb without a word | G |
| When the green pines feel the coming of the spring | H |
| Looking back I sigh looking before I sigh again | I |
| What is there to prize in the life's vaporous glory | J |
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