Vain Transient World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| Vain transient World what charms are thine | A |
| And what do mortals in thee see | B |
| That they should worship at thy shrine | A |
| And sacrifice their all to thee | B |
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| Thy brightest gifts thy happiest hours | C |
| Fly past on pinions of the wind | D |
| They fade like blooms upon the flowers | C |
| And leave a painful want behind | D |
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| Thou art a road though not of space | E |
| Which rich and poor alike must tread | F |
| Thy starting point we cannot trace | E |
| Thine end the country of the dead | F |
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| A pathway paved with want and woe | G |
| With pleasures painful incomplete | H |
| Like stones upon the way below | G |
| Which wound the weary pilgrim's feet | H |
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| Thou'rt hedged with visions of despair | I |
| With words of hate with looks of scorn | J |
| Like wayside thorns which pierce and tear | I |
| The fainting traveller weak and worn | J |
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| Relentless odium's bitter ill | K |
| Cold disregard thy ways infest | L |
| Like wintry blasts that chill and kill | K |
| The very heart within the breast | L |
W. M. Mackeracher
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