Human Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEDFGDDDHIDID DIJDDJKKK| If dead we cease to be if total gloom | A |
| Swallow up life's brief flash for aye we fare | B |
| As summer gusts of sudden birth and doom | A |
| Whose sound and motion not alone declare | B |
| But are their whole of being If the breath | C |
| Be Life itself and not its task and tent | D |
| If even a soul like Milton's can know death | C |
| O Man thou vessel purposeless unmeant | D |
| Yet drone hive strange of phantom purposes | E |
| Surplus of Nature's dread activity | D |
| Which as she gazed on some nigh finished vase | F |
| Retreating slow with meditative pause | G |
| She formed with restless hands unconsciously | D |
| Blank accident nothing's anomaly | D |
| If rootless thus thus substanceless thy state | D |
| Go weigh thy dreams and be thy hopes thy fears | H |
| The counter weights Thy laughter and thy tears | I |
| Mean but themselves each fittest to create | D |
| And to repay the other Why rejoices | I |
| Thy heart with hollow joy for hollow good | D |
| Why cowl thy face beneath the mourner's hood | D |
| Why waste thy sighs and thy lamenting voices | I |
| Image of Image Ghost of Ghostly Elf | J |
| That such a thing as thou feel'st warm or cold | D |
| Yet what and whence thy gain if thou withhold | D |
| These costless shadows of thy shadowy self | J |
| Be sad be glad be neither seek or shun | K |
| Thou hast no reason why Thou canst have none | K |
| Thy being's being is contradiction | K |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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