The Sum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG HHII| A little dreaming by the way | A |
| A little toiling day by day | A |
| A little pain a little strife | B |
| A little joy and that is life | B |
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| A little short lived summer's morn | C |
| When joy seems all so newly born | C |
| When one day's sky is blue above | D |
| And one bird sings and that is love | D |
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| A little sickening of the years | E |
| The tribute of a few hot tears | F |
| Two folded hands the failing breath | G |
| And peace at last and that is death | G |
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| Just dreaming loving dying so | H |
| The actors in the drama go | H |
| A flitting picture on a wall | I |
| Love Death the themes but is that all | I |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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