To Be, Or Not To Be (hamlet, Act Iii, Scene I) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFADGHIJKLIIMNO PKQRISTIAUVWXNY

To be or not to be that is the questionA
Whether tis nobler in the mind to sufferB
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortuneA
Or to take arms against a sea of troublesC
And by opposing end them To die to sleepD
No more and by a sleep to say we endE
The heart ache and the thousand natural shocksF
That flesh is heir to tis a consummationA
Devoutly to be wish d To die to sleepD
To sleep perchance to dream ay there s the rubG
For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeH
When we have shuffled off this mortal coilI
Must give us pause there s the respectJ
That makes calamity of so long lifeK
For who would bear the whips and scorns of timeL
The oppressor s wrong the proud man s contumelyI
The pangs of despised love the law s delayI
The insolence of office and the spurnsM
That patient merit of the unworthy takesN
When he himself might his quietus makeO
With a bare bodkin who would fardels bearP
To grunt and sweat under a weary lifeK
But that the dread of something after deathQ
The undiscover d country from whose bournR
No traveller returns puzzles the willI
And makes us rather bear those ills we haveS
Than fly to others that we know not ofT
Thus conscience does make cowards of us allI
And thus the native hue of resolutionA
Is sicklied o er with the pale cast of thoughtU
And enterprises of great pith and momentV
With this regard their currents turn awryW
And lose the name of action Soft you nowX
The fair Ophelia Nymph in thy orisonsN
Be all my sins remember dY

William Shakespeare



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