The Future Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDEF GHGH IJIK LMLM NONO PQPQ RSRS TUVU| How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps | A |
| The disembodied spirits of the dead | B |
| When all of thee that time could wither sleeps | A |
| And perishes among the dust we tread | B |
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| For I shall feel the sting of ceaseless pain | C |
| If there I meet thy gentle presence not | D |
| Nor hear the voice I love nor read again | E |
| In thy serenest eyes the tender thought | F |
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| Will not thy own meek heart demand me there | G |
| That heart whose fondest throbs to me were given | H |
| My name on earth was ever in thy prayer | G |
| Shall it be banished from thy tongue in heaven | H |
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| In meadows fanned by heaven's life breathing wind | I |
| In the resplendence of that glorious sphere | J |
| And larger movements of the unfettered mind | I |
| Wilt thou forget the love that joined us here | K |
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| The love that lived through all the stormy past | L |
| And meekly with my harsher nature bore | M |
| And deeper grew and tenderer to the last | L |
| Shall it expire with life and be no more | M |
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| A happier lot than mine and larger light | N |
| Await thee there for thou hast bowed thy will | O |
| In cheerful homage to the rule of right | N |
| And lovest all and renderest good for ill | O |
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| For me the sordid cares in which I dwell | P |
| Shrink and consume my heart as heat the scroll | Q |
| And wrath has left its scar that fire of hell | P |
| Has left its frightful scar upon my soul | Q |
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| Yet though thou wear'st the glory of the sky | R |
| Wilt thou not keep the same beloved name | S |
| The same fair thoughtful brow and gentle eye | R |
| Lovelier in heaven's sweet climate yet the same | S |
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| Shalt thou not teach me in that calmer home | T |
| The wisdom that I learned so ill in this | U |
| The wisdom which is love till I become | V |
| Thy fit companion in that land of bliss | U |
William Cullen Bryant
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