Time And Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC CBC BCBC A DEDE EDE DEDE| I | A |
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| Time thy name is sorrow says the stricken | B |
| Heart of life laid waste with wasting flame | C |
| Ere the change of things and thoughts requicken | B |
| Time thy name | C |
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| Girt about with shadow blind and lame | C |
| Ghosts of things that smite and thoughts that sicken | B |
| Hunt and hound thee down to death and shame | C |
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| Eyes of hours whose paces halt or quicken | B |
| Read in bloodred lines of loss and blame | C |
| Writ where cloud and darkness round it thicken | B |
| Time thy name | C |
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| II | A |
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| Nay but rest is born of me for healing | D |
| So might haply time with voice represt | E |
| Speak is grief the last gift of my dealing | D |
| Nay but rest | E |
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| All the world is wearied east and west | E |
| Tired with toil to watch the slow sun wheeling | D |
| Twelve loud hours of life's laborious quest | E |
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| Eyes forspent with vigil faint and reeling | D |
| Find at last my comfort and are blest | E |
| Not with rapturous light of life's revealing | D |
| Nay but rest | E |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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