What’s This Life All About Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFG HIHI JJKK LLMM NOPQP| Beneath these rain soaked trees I lay | A |
| Creating dreams on hardened clay | A |
| Of days that were but never again | B |
| Of long forgotten times and loves forgotten pain | C |
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| Nobody feels the imperfections I feel | D |
| And nobody dreams the nightmares I dream | E |
| For each day that passes another begins | F |
| With life s burning candle no happiness it brings | G |
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| As the half light of sunlight slowly creeps to full light | H |
| Breaking through that early morning cry | I |
| Reflecting on the sunflowers hibernating night | H |
| As the metamorphosis caterpillar turns to butterfly | I |
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| If destitution be my fate | J |
| Then leave me surrender at nature s gate | J |
| To explore my memories of wooden toys and wind up trains | K |
| Of bright sunny days and drenching rains | K |
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| So please just walk away and leave me to my dreams | L |
| Of childhood days of pranks and schemes | L |
| Of jack stones beehives and old pedal cars | M |
| Crayons spiders and millions of stars | M |
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| To count these stars I m never alone | N |
| For they are the roof to my new home | O |
| With the moon my light if more I doubt | P |
| So I ll rest here and wonder | Q |
| What s this life all about | P |
Tony Dockery
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 06/21/2020
Poet's note: It’s really just a story of a homeless person, dreaming of what was and what might be.
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