Eternal Time, That Wastest Without Waste Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEFEBB GHGHIJEternal Time that wastest without waste | A |
That art and art not diest and livest still | B |
Most slow of all and yet of greatest haste | A |
Both ill and good and neither good nor ill | B |
How can I justly praise thee or dispraise | C |
Dark are thy nights but bright and clear thy days | C |
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Both free and scarce thou giv'st and tak'st again | D |
Thy womb that all doth breed is tomb to all | E |
What so by thee hath life by thee is slain | F |
From thee do all things rise by thee they fall | E |
Constant inconstant moving standing still | B |
Was Is Shall be do thee both breed and kill | B |
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I lose thee while I seek to find thee out | G |
The farther off the more I follow thee | H |
The faster hold the greater cause of doubt | G |
Was Is I know but Shall I cannot see | H |
All things by thee are measur'd thou by none | I |
All are in thee thou in thyself alone | J |
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