One Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEGG HIHIJJ KLKLMM JNJNGG| Oh I am hurt to death my Love | A |
| The shafts of Fate have pierced my striving heart | B |
| And I am sick and weary of | A |
| The endless pain and smart | B |
| My soul is weary of the strife | C |
| And chafes at life and chafes at life | C |
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| Time mocks me with fair promises | D |
| A blooming future grows a barren past | E |
| Like rain my fair full blossomed trees | F |
| Unburden in the blast | E |
| The harvest fails on grain and tree | G |
| Nor comes to me nor comes to me | G |
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| The stream that bears my hopes abreast | H |
| Turns ever from my way its pregnant tide | I |
| My laden boat torn from its rest | H |
| Drifts to the other side | I |
| So all my hopes are set astray | J |
| And drift away and drift away | J |
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| The lark sings to me at the morn | K |
| And near me wings her skyward soaring flight | L |
| But pleasure dies as soon as born | K |
| The owl takes up the night | L |
| And night seems long and doubly dark | M |
| I miss the lark I miss the lark | M |
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| Let others labor as they may | J |
| I'll sing and sigh alone and write my line | N |
| Their fate is theirs or grave or gay | J |
| And mine shall still be mine | N |
| I know the world holds joy and glee | G |
| But not for me 't is not for me | G |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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