Only A Matter Of Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGHDIJ KLMNOPI CQRSTU| DOWN SLIPPING Time sweet swift and shallow stream | A |
| Here like a boulder lies this afternoon | B |
| Across your eager flow So you shall stay | C |
| Deepened and dammed to let me breathe and be | D |
| Your troubled fluency your running gleam | A |
| Shall pause and circle idly still and clear | E |
| The while I lie and search your glassy pool | F |
| Where gently coiling in their lazy round | G |
| Unseparable minutes drift and swim | H |
| Eddy and rise and brim And I will see | D |
| How many crystal bubbles of slack Time | I |
| The mind can hold and cherish in one Now | J |
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| Now for one concious vacancy of sense | K |
| The stream is gathered in a depening pond | L |
| Not a mere moving mirror Through the sharp | M |
| Correct reflection of the standing scene | N |
| The mind can dip and cleanse itself with rest | O |
| And see slow spinning in the lucid gold | P |
| Your liquid notes imperishable Time | I |
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| It cannot be The runnel slips away | C |
| The clear smooth downward sluice begins again | Q |
| More brightly slanting for that trembling pause | R |
| Leaving the sense its conscious vague unease | S |
| As when a sonnet flashes on the mind | T |
| Trembles and burns an instant and is gone | U |
Christopher Morley
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