Life's Chequer-board Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA B CCAC BBBB| 'Tis all a Chequer Board of Nights and Days | A |
| Where Detiny with men for pieces plays | A |
| Hither and thither moves and mates and slays | A |
| And one by one back in the Closet lays | A |
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| Omar Khayyam | B |
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| A Chequer Board of mingled Light and Shade | C |
| And We the Pieces on it deftly laid | C |
| Moved and removed without a word to say | A |
| By the Same Hand that Board and Pieces made | C |
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| No Pieces we in any Fateful Game | B |
| Nor free to shift on Destiny the blame | B |
| Each Soul doth tend its own immortal flame | B |
| Fans it to Heaven or smothers it in shame | B |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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