All The World's A Stage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHIHIGJKIICLM IINOGPJQ| All the world's a stage | A |
| And all the men and women merely players | B |
| They have their exits and their entrances | C |
| And one man in his time plays many parts | D |
| His acts being seven ages At first the infant | E |
| Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms | F |
| Then the whining schoolboy with his satchel | G |
| And shining morning face creeping like snail | G |
| Unwillingly to school And then the lover | H |
| Sighing like furnace with a woeful ballad | I |
| Made to his mistress' eyebrow Then a soldier | H |
| Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard | I |
| Jealous in honor sudden and quick in quarrel | G |
| Seeking the bubble reputation | J |
| Even in the cannon's mouth And then the justice | K |
| In fair round belly with good capon lined | I |
| With eyes severe and beard of formal cut | I |
| Full of wise saws and modern instances | C |
| And so he plays his part The sixth age shifts | L |
| Into the lean and slippered pantaloon | M |
| With spectacles on nose and pouch on side | I |
| His youthful hose well saved a world too wide | I |
| For his shrunk shank and his big manly voice | N |
| Turning again toward childish treble pipes | O |
| And whistles in his sound Last scene of all | G |
| That ends this strange eventful history | P |
| Is second childishness and mere oblivion | J |
| Sans teeth sans eyes sans taste sans everything | Q |
William Shakespeare
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