Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI JKJL MCMC NONO PQPQ RQSQ QTQT UVUV QWQW LILI| Oh Life I breathe thee in the breeze | A |
| I feel thee bounding in my veins | B |
| I see thee in these stretching trees | A |
| These flowers this still rock's mossy stains | B |
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| This stream of odours flowing by | C |
| From clover field and clumps of pine | D |
| This music thrilling all the sky | C |
| From all the morning birds are thine | D |
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| Thou fill'st with joy this little one | E |
| That leaps and shouts beside me here | F |
| Where Isar's clay white rivulets run | E |
| Through the dark woods like frighted deer | G |
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| Ah must thy mighty breath that wakes | H |
| Insect and bird and flower and tree | I |
| From the low trodden dust and makes | H |
| Their daily gladness pass from me | I |
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| Pass pulse by pulse till o'er the ground | J |
| These limbs now strong shall creep with pain | K |
| And this fair world of sight and sound | J |
| Seem fading into night again | L |
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| The things oh LIFE thou quickenest all | M |
| Strive upwards toward the broad bright sky | C |
| Upward and outward and they fall | M |
| Back to earth's bosom when they die | C |
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| All that have borne the touch of death | N |
| All that shall live lie mingled there | O |
| Beneath that veil of bloom and breath | N |
| That living zone 'twixt earth and air | O |
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| There lies my chamber dark and still | P |
| The atoms trampled by my feet | Q |
| There wait to take the place I fill | P |
| In the sweet air and sunshine sweet | Q |
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| Well I have had my turn have been | R |
| Raised from the darkness of the clod | Q |
| And for a glorious moment seen | S |
| The brightness of the skirts of God | Q |
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| And knew the light within my breast | Q |
| Though wavering oftentimes and dim | T |
| The power the will that never rest | Q |
| And cannot die were all from him | T |
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| Dear child I know that thou wilt grieve | U |
| To see me taken from thy love | V |
| Wilt seek my grave at Sabbath eve | U |
| And weep and scatter flowers above | V |
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| Thy little heart will soon be healed | Q |
| And being shall be bliss till thou | W |
| To younger forms of life must yield | Q |
| The place thou fill'st with beauty now | W |
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| When we descend to dust again | L |
| Where will the final dwelling be | I |
| Of Thought and all its memories then | L |
| My love for thee and thine for me | I |
William Cullen Bryant
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