To My Mother Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC ABCDDC| Life is bitter All the faces of the years | A |
| Young and old are grey with travail and with tears | B |
| Must we only wake to toil to tire to weep | C |
| In the sun among the leaves upon the flowers | D |
| Slumber stills to dreamy death the heavy hours | D |
| Let me sleep | C |
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| Riches won but mock the old unable years | A |
| Fame's a pearl that hides beneath a sea of tears | B |
| Love must wither or must live alone and weep | C |
| In the sunshine through the leaves across the flowers | D |
| While we slumber death approaches though the hours | D |
| Let me sleep | C |
William Ernest Henley
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