River Of Life, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHG IJIK LMNM ODOD| The more we live more brief appear | A |
| Our life's succeeding stages | B |
| A day to childhood seems a year | A |
| And years like passing ages | B |
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| The gladsome current of our youth | C |
| Ere passion yet disorders | D |
| Steals lingering like a river smooth | E |
| Along its grassy borders | D |
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| But as the careworn cheek grows wan | F |
| And sorrow's shafts fly thicker | G |
| Ye stars that measure life to man | H |
| Why seem your courses quicker | G |
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| When joys have lost their bloom and breath | I |
| And life itself is vapid | J |
| Why as we reach the Falls of Death | I |
| Feel we its tide more rapid | K |
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| It may be strange yet who would change | L |
| Time's course to slower speeding | M |
| When one by one our friends have gone | N |
| And left our bosoms bleeding | M |
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| Heaven gives our years of fading strength | O |
| Indemnifying fleetness | D |
| And those of youth a seeming length | O |
| Proportion'd to their sweetness | D |
Thomas Campbell
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