Checking The Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJKLMLM NONOPQP| 'I had a full day in my purse | A |
| When I arose and now it's gone | B |
| I wonder if I can rehearse | A |
| The squandered hours one by one | C |
| And count the minutes as I do | D |
| The pennies and the dimes I've spent | E |
| I've had a day once bright and new | D |
| But oh for what few things it went | E |
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| There were twelve hours when I began | F |
| Good hours worth sixty minutes each | G |
| Yet some of them so swiftly ran | F |
| I had no time for thought or speech | G |
| Eight of them to my task I gave | H |
| Glad that it did not ask for mre | I |
| Part of the day I tried to save | H |
| But now I cannot say what for | I |
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| An hour I spent for idle chat | J |
| Gossip and scandal I confess | K |
| No better off am I for that | J |
| Would I had talked a little less | K |
| I watched steel workers bolt a beam | L |
| What time that cost I don't recall | M |
| How very short the minutes seem | L |
| When they are spent on trifles small | M |
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| Quite empty is my purse to night | N |
| Which held at dawn a twelve hour day | O |
| For all of it has taken flight | N |
| Part wisely spent part thrown away | O |
| I did my task and earned its gain | P |
| But checking deeds with what they cost | Q |
| Two missing hours I can't explain | P |
| They must be charges as lost ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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