Time Spent In Dress Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GEHE IJKJ LMNM AOPO QRGR SEME| In many a lecture many a book | A |
| You all have heard you all have read | B |
| That time is precious Of its use | C |
| Much has been written much been said | B |
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| The accomplishments which gladden life | D |
| As music drawing dancing are | E |
| Encroachers on our precious time | F |
| Their praise or dispraise I forbear | E |
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| They should be practised or forborne | G |
| As parents wish or friends desire | E |
| What rests alone in their own will | H |
| Is all I of the young require | E |
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| There's not a more productive source | I |
| Of waste of time to the young mind | J |
| Than dress as it regards our hours | K |
| My view of it is now confined | J |
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| Without some calculation youth | L |
| May live to age and never guess | M |
| That no one study they pursue | N |
| Takes half the time they give to dress | M |
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| Write in your memorandum book | A |
| The time you at your toilette spend | O |
| Then every moment which you pass | P |
| Talking of dress with a young friend | O |
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| And ever when your silent thoughts | Q |
| Have on this subject been intent | R |
| Set down as nearly as you can | G |
| How long on dress your thoughts were bent | R |
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| If faithfully you should perform | S |
| This task 'twould teach you to repair | E |
| Lost hours by giving unto dress | M |
| Not more of time than its due share | E |
Charles Lamb
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