Is Life Worth Living? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDD EFGH IIJJJKK| Is life worth living | A |
| It depends on your believing | A |
| If it ends with this short span | B |
| Then is man no better than | B |
| The beasts that perish | C |
| But a Loftier Hope we cherish | C |
| Life out of Death is written wide | D |
| Across Life's page on every side | D |
| We cannot think as ended our dear dead who died | D |
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| What room is left us then for doubt or fear | E |
| Love laughs at thought of ending there or here | F |
| God would lack meaning if this world were all | G |
| And this short life but one long funeral | H |
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| God is Christ loves Christ lives | I |
| And by His Own Returning gives | I |
| Sure pledge of Immortality | J |
| The first fruits He and we | J |
| The harvest of His victory | J |
| The life beyond shall this life far transcend | K |
| And Death is the Beginning not the End | K |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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