They May Rail At This Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHEHE IJIJKEKE LILIIEIE| They may rail at this life from the hour I began it | A |
| I found it a life full of kindness and bliss | B |
| And until they can show me some happier planet | C |
| More social and bright I'll content me with this | B |
| As long as the world has such lips and such eyes | D |
| As before me this moment enraptured I see | E |
| They may say what they will of their orbs in the skies | D |
| But this earth is the planet for you love and me | E |
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| In Mercury's star where each moment can bring them | F |
| New sunshine and wit from the fountain on high | G |
| Though the nymphs may have livelier poets to sing them | F |
| They've none even there more enamour'd than I | G |
| And as long as this harp can be waken'd to love | H |
| And that eye its divine inspiration shall be | E |
| They may talk as they will of their Edens above | H |
| But this earth is the planet for you love and me | E |
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| In that star of the west by whose shadowy splendour | I |
| At twilight so often we've roam'd through the dew | J |
| There are maidens perhaps who have bosoms as tender | I |
| And look in their twilights as lovely as you | J |
| But though they were even more bright than the queen | K |
| Of that Isle they inhabit in heaven's blue sea | E |
| As I never those fair young celestials have seen | K |
| Why this earth is the planet for you love and me | E |
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| As for those chilly orbs on the verge of creation | L |
| Where sunshine and smiles must be equally rare | I |
| Did they want a supply of cold hearts for that station | L |
| Heaven knows we have plenty on earth we could spare | I |
| Oh think what a world we should have of it here | I |
| If the haters of peace of affection and glee | E |
| Were to fly up to Saturn's comfortless sphere | I |
| And leave earth to such spirits as you love and me | E |
Thomas Moore
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