Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C DDEEFFGG HHIIJBKKEELL MMEENNOOAAPPQQRR| What is this world thy school O misery | A |
| Our only lesson is to learn to suffer | B |
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| YOUNG | C |
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| LOVE thou sportive fickle boy | D |
| Source of anguish child of joy | D |
| Ever wounding ever smiling | E |
| Soothing still and still beguiling | E |
| What are all thy boasted treasures | F |
| Tender sorrows transient pleasures | F |
| Anxious hopes and jealous fears | G |
| LAUGHING HOURS and MOURNING YEARS | G |
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| What is FRIENDSHIP'S soothing name | H |
| But a shad'wy vap'rish flame | H |
| Fancy's balm for ev'ry wound | I |
| Ever sought but rarely found | I |
| What is BEAUTY but a flow'r | J |
| Blooming fading in an hour | B |
| Deck'd with brightest tints at morn | K |
| At twilight with'ring on a thorn | K |
| Like the gentle Rose of spring | E |
| Chill'd by ev'ry zephyr's wing | E |
| Ah how soon its colour flies | L |
| Blushes trembles falls and dies | L |
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| What is YOUTH a smiling sorrow | M |
| Blithe to day and sad to morrow | M |
| Never fix'd for ever ranging | E |
| Laughing weeping doating changing | E |
| Wild capricious giddy vain | N |
| Cloy'd with pleasure nurs'd with pain | N |
| AGE steals on with wint'ry face | O |
| Ev'ry rapt'rous Hope to chase | O |
| Like a wither'd sapless tree | A |
| Bow'd to chilling Fate's decree | A |
| Strip'd of all its foliage gay | P |
| Drooping at the close of day | P |
| What of tedious Life remains | Q |
| Keen regrets and cureless pains | Q |
| Till DEATH appears a welcome friend | R |
| To bid the scene of sorrow end | R |
Mary Darby Robinson
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