To Fausta Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDB EFGHIJF FKLMLMKJoy comes and goes hope ebbs and flows | A |
Like the wave | B |
Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men | C |
Love lends life a little grace | D |
A few sad smiles and then | C |
Both are laid in one cold place | D |
In the grave | B |
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Dreams dawn and fly friends smile and die | E |
Like spring flowers | F |
Our vaunted life is one long funeral | G |
Men dig graves with bitter tears | H |
For their dead hopes and all | I |
Maz'd with doubts and sick with fears | J |
Count the hours | F |
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We count the hours these dreams of ours | F |
False and hollow | K |
Shall we go hence and find they are not dead | L |
Joys we dimly apprehend | M |
Faces that smil'd and fled | L |
Hopes born here and born to end | M |
Shall we follow | K |
Matthew Arnold
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