A Parody On -a Psalm Of Life� Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIB

Life is real life is earnestA
And the shell is not its penB
Egg thou art and egg remainestA
Was not spoken of the henB
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Art is long and Time is fleetingC
Be our bills then sharpened wellD
And not like muffled drums be beatingC
On the inside of the shellD
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In the world s broad field of battleE
In the great barnyard of lifeF
Be not like those lazy cattleE
Be a rooster in the strifeF
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Lives of roosters all remind usG
We can make our lives sublimeH
And when roasted leave behind usG
Hen tracks on the sands of timeH
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Hen tracks that perhaps anotherI
Chicken drooping in the rainJ
Some forlorn and henpecked brotherI
When he sees shall crow againB

Oliver Wendell Holmes



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