What Is The World? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEDEFGHG IJIJKLKL MLMLNLNLWell 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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