To The Fortune Seeker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC EEFGGH IIJKKJ LLMNNM OOPQQP| A little more a little less | A |
| O shadow hunters pitiless | B |
| Why then so eager say | C |
| What'er you leave the grave will take | D |
| And all you gain and all you make | D |
| It will not last a day | C |
| - | |
| Full soon will come the Reaper Black | E |
| Cut thorns and flowers mark his track | E |
| Across Life's meadow blithe | F |
| Oppose him meet him as you will | G |
| Old Time's behests he harkens still | G |
| Unsparing wields his scythe | H |
| - | |
| A horrid mutiny by stealth | I |
| Breaks out of power fame and wealth | I |
| Deserted you shall be | J |
| The foam upon your lip is rife | K |
| The last enigma now of Life | K |
| Shall Death resolve for thee | J |
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| You call for help 'tis all in vain | L |
| What have you for your toil and pain | L |
| What have you at the last | M |
| Poor luckless hunter are you dumb | N |
| This way the cold pall bearers come | N |
| A beggar's soul has passed | M |
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| A little less a little more | O |
| Look forth look forth without the door | O |
| There stands a robber old | P |
| He'll force your ev'ry lock and spring | Q |
| And all your goods he'll take and fling | Q |
| On Stygian waters cold | P |
Morris Rosenfeld
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