What Is The World? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEDEFGHG IJIJKLKL MLMLNLNL| Well say you the world is a chamber of sleep | A |
| And life but a sleeping and dreaming | B |
| Then I too would dream and would joyously reap | A |
| The blooms of harmonious seeming | B |
| The dream flow'rs of hope and of freedom perchance | C |
| The rich are so merrily reaping | B |
| In Love's eyes I'd fancy the joy of romance | C |
| No more would I dream Love is weeping | B |
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| Or say you the world is a banquet a ball | D |
| Where everyone goes who is able | E |
| I too wish to sit like a lord in the hall | D |
| With savory share at the table | E |
| I too can enjoy what is wholesome and good | F |
| A morsel both dainty and healthy | G |
| I have in my body the same sort of blood | H |
| That flows in the veins of the wealthy | G |
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| A garden you say is the world where abound | I |
| The sweetest and loveliest roses | J |
| Then would I no leave asking saunter around | I |
| And gather me handfuls of posies | J |
| Of thorns I am sure I would make me no wreath | K |
| Of flowers I am very much fonder | L |
| And with my beloved the bowers beneath | K |
| I'd wander and wander and wander | L |
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| But ah if the world is a battlefield wild | M |
| Where struggle the weak with the stronger | L |
| Then heed I no storm and no wife and no child | M |
| I stand in abeyance no longer | L |
| Rush into the fire of the battle nor yield | N |
| And fight for my perishing brother | L |
| Well if I am struck I can die on the field | N |
| Die gladly as well as another | L |
Morris Rosenfeld
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