Human Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDB EDFEFD GCHGHC IHJKJL BMBBBM| What mortal when he saw | A |
| Life's voyage done his heavenly Friend | B |
| Could ever yet dare tell him fearlessly | C |
| 'I have kept uninfringed my nature's law | C |
| The inly written chart thou gavest me | D |
| To guide me I have steer'd by to the end' | B |
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| Ah let us make no claim | E |
| On life's incognisable sea | D |
| To too exact a steering of our way | F |
| Let us not fret and fear to miss our aim | E |
| If some fair coast have lured us to make stay | F |
| Or some friend hail'd us to keep company | D |
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| Ay we would each fain drive | G |
| At random and not steer by rule | C |
| Weakness and worse weakness bestow'd in vain | H |
| Winds from our side the unsuiting consort rive | G |
| We rush by coasts where we had lief remain | H |
| Man cannot though he would live chance's fool | C |
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| No as the foaming swath | I |
| Of torn up water on the main | H |
| Falls heavily away with long drawn roar | J |
| On either side the black deep furrow'd path | K |
| Cut by an onward labouring vessel's prore | J |
| And never touches the ship side again | L |
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| Even so we leave behind | B |
| As charter'd by some unknown Powers | M |
| We stem across the sea of life by night | B |
| The joys which were not for our use design'd | B |
| The friends to whom we had no natural right | B |
| The homes that were not destined to be ours | M |
Matthew Arnold
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