A Parody On -a Psalm Of Lifeâ? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIBLife is real life is earnest | A |
And the shell is not its pen | B |
Egg thou art and egg remainest | A |
Was not spoken of the hen | B |
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Art is long and Time is fleeting | C |
Be our bills then sharpened well | D |
And not like muffled drums be beating | C |
On the inside of the shell | D |
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In the world s broad field of battle | E |
In the great barnyard of life | F |
Be not like those lazy cattle | E |
Be a rooster in the strife | F |
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Lives of roosters all remind us | G |
We can make our lives sublime | H |
And when roasted leave behind us | G |
Hen tracks on the sands of time | H |
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Hen tracks that perhaps another | I |
Chicken drooping in the rain | J |
Some forlorn and henpecked brother | I |
When he sees shall crow again | B |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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