The Tangled Skein Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEEED FGFGHHIIIH| Try we life long we can never | A |
| Straighten out life's tangled skein | B |
| Why should we in vain endeavour | A |
| Guess and guess and guess again | C |
| Life's a pudding full of plums | D |
| Care's a canker that benumbs | D |
| Wherefore waste our elocution | E |
| On impossible solution | E |
| Life's a pleasant institution | E |
| Let us take it as it comes | D |
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| Set aside the dull enigma | F |
| We shall guess it all too soon | G |
| Failure brings no kind of stigma | F |
| Dance we to another tune | G |
| String the lyre and fill the cup | H |
| Lest on sorrow we should sup | H |
| Hop and skip to Fancy's fiddle | I |
| Hands across and down the middle | I |
| Life's perhaps the only riddle | I |
| That we shrink from giving up | H |
William Schwenck Gilbert
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