Each Day A Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HEHG| I count each day a little life | A |
| With birth and death complete | B |
| I cloister it from care and strife | A |
| And keep it sane and sweet | B |
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| With eager eyes I greet the morn | C |
| Exultant as a boy | D |
| Knowing that I am newly born | C |
| To wonder and to joy | D |
| - | |
| And when the sunset splendours wane | E |
| And ripe for rest am I | F |
| Knowing that I will live again | G |
| Exultantly I die | F |
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| O that all Life were but a Day | H |
| Sunny and sweet and sane | E |
| And that at Even I might say | H |
| I sleep to wake again | G |
Robert Service
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