Life's Tragedy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHEH EIJIIt may be misery not to sing at all | A |
And to go silent through the brimming day | B |
It may be misery never to be loved | C |
But deeper griefs than these beset the way | B |
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To sing the perfect song | D |
And by a half tone lost the key | E |
There the potent sorrow there the grief | F |
The pale sad staring of Life's Tragedy | E |
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To have come near to the perfect love | G |
Not the hot passion of untempered youth | H |
But that which lies aside its vanity | E |
And gives for thy trusting worship truth | H |
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This this indeed is to be accursed | E |
For if we mortals love or if we sing | I |
We count our joys not by what we have | J |
But by what kept us from that perfect thing | I |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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