A Parody On -a Psalm Of Lifeâ? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIB| Life 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 |
| - | |
| 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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