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