Imitation Of The Olden Poets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFGTime is a taper waning fast | A |
Use it man well whilst it doth last | A |
Lest burning downwards it consume away | B |
Before thou hast commenced the labour of the day | B |
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Time is a pardon of a goodly soil | C |
Plenty shall crown thine honest toil | C |
But if uncultivated rankest weeds | D |
Shall choke the efforts of the rising seeds | D |
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Time is a leasehold of uncertain date | E |
Granted to thee by everlasting fate | E |
Neglect not thou ere thy short term expire | F |
To save thy soul from ever burning fire | G |
Edward Lear
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