From The Hymn Of Empedocles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DEDEC FGFGH IJIJH KEKEL MNMNO| IS it so small a thing | A |
| To have enjoy'd the sun | B |
| To have lived light in the spring | A |
| To have loved to have thought to have done | B |
| To have advanced true friends and beat down baffling foes | C |
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| That we must feign a bliss | D |
| Of doubtful future date | E |
| And while we dream on this | D |
| Lose all our present state | E |
| And relegate to worlds yet distant our repose | C |
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| Not much I know you prize | F |
| What pleasures may be had | G |
| Who look on life with eyes | F |
| Estranged like mine and sad | G |
| And yet the village churl feels the truth more than you | H |
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| Who 's loth to leave this life | I |
| Which to him little yields | J |
| His hard task'd sunburnt wife | I |
| His often labour'd fields | J |
| The boors with whom he talk'd the country spots he knew | H |
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| But thou because thou hear'st | K |
| Men scoff at Heaven and Fate | E |
| Because the gods thou fear'st | K |
| Fail to make blest thy state | E |
| Tremblest and wilt not dare to trust the joys there are | L |
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| I say Fear not life still | M |
| Leaves human effort scope | N |
| But since life teems with ill | M |
| Nurse no extravagant hope | N |
| Because thou must not dream thou need'st not then despair | O |
Matthew Arnold
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