This Life Is All Chequer'd With Pleasures And Woes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEF DGDGDHDHIJIJ| This life is all chequer'd with pleasures and woes | A |
| That chase one another like waves of the deep | B |
| Each brightly or darkly as onward it flows | A |
| Reflecting our eyes as they sparkle or weep | B |
| So closely our whims on our miseries tread | C |
| That the laugh is awaked ere the tear can be dried | D |
| And as fast as the rain drop of Pity is shed | C |
| The goose plumage of Folly can turn it aside | D |
| But pledge me the cup if existence would cloy | E |
| With hearts ever happy and heads ever wise | F |
| Be ours the light Sorrow half sister to Joy | E |
| And the light brilliant Folly that flashes and dies | F |
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| When Hylas was sent with his urn to the fount | D |
| Through fields full of light and with heart full of play | G |
| Light rambled the boy over meadow and mount | D |
| And neglected his task for the flowers on the way | G |
| Thus many like me who in youth should have tasted | D |
| The fountain that runs by Philosophy's shrine | H |
| Their time with the flowers on the margin have wasted | D |
| And left their light urns all as empty as mine | H |
| But pledge me the goblet while idleness weaves | I |
| These flowerets together should Wisdom but see | J |
| One bright drop or two that has fall'n on the leaves | I |
| From her fountain divine 'tis sufficient for me | J |
Thomas Moore
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