In this chapter, J. C. C. Mays contends that a failure to take proper notice of the hidden features of Coleridge’s poem ‘Human Life Contemplated on the Denial of Immortality’ (1811–15) has led to an amount of confusion as to what it actually does. The author gives a more careful reading of Coleridge’s late and often-neglected poem ‘Human Life’, which takes off from what one might call its complicated double-rhyme scheme. It turns out to be more carefully constructed than it is usually taken to be, even though it remains a poem that attempts—as Coleridge said of some of John Donne’s—to say too much.