Life And Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA ABAC ADAD EFEF AAA| If life were caught by a clarionet | A |
| And a wild heart throbbing in the reed | A |
| Should thrill its joy and trill its fret | A |
| And utter its heart in every deed | A |
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| Then would this breathing clarionet | A |
| Type what the poet fain would be | B |
| For none o' the singers ever yet | A |
| Has wholly lived his minstrelsy | C |
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| Or clearly sung his true true thought | A |
| Or utterly bodied forth his life | D |
| Or out of life and song has wrought | A |
| The perfect one of man and wife | D |
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| Or lived and sung that Life and Song | E |
| Might each express the other's all | F |
| Careless if life or art were long | E |
| Since both were one to stand or fall | F |
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| So that the wonder struck the crowd | A |
| Who shouted it about the land | A |
| 'His song was only living aloud | A |
| His work a singing with his hand ' | - |
Sidney Lanier
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