An Ode To Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI JKJKLMNM CFCFOIOI PFPFQRQR DSDTURUR| Ho sportsman Time whose chargers fleet | A |
| The moments madly driven | B |
| Beat in the dust beneath their feet | A |
| Sweet hopes that years have given | B |
| Turn turn aside those reckless steeds | C |
| Oh do not urge them my way | D |
| There's nothing that Time wants or needs | C |
| In this contented by way | D |
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| You have down trodden in your race | E |
| So much that proves your power | F |
| Why not avoid my humble place | E |
| Why rob me of my dower | G |
| With your vast cellars cavern deep | H |
| Packed tier on tier with treasures | I |
| You would not miss them should I KEEP | H |
| My little store of pleasures | I |
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| As one who frightened flying flings | J |
| Her riches down at random | K |
| Your course is paved with precious things | J |
| Life casts before your tandem | K |
| The warrior's fame the conqueror's crown | L |
| Great creeds for ages cherished | M |
| Beneath your chariot wheels were thrown | N |
| And crushed to earth they perished | M |
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| Although to just and generous deeds | C |
| Your heart is not a stranger | F |
| I have the feeling that one needs | C |
| To guard his wealth from danger | F |
| And though a most heroic light | O |
| Oft on your pathway lingers | I |
| I'd hide my treasures if I might | O |
| From contact with your fingers | I |
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| You are the loyal friend of Truth | P |
| Go seek her make her stronger | F |
| And leave the remnant of my youth | P |
| To me a little longer | F |
| There's work enough for you before | Q |
| Eternity shall wed you | R |
| Why stoop to steal my simple store | Q |
| Why make me shun and dread you | R |
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| You do not need my joys I say | D |
| Home love and friends united | S |
| I beg you turn and go the way | D |
| Where wrong waits to be righted | T |
| Or pause and let us chat a while | U |
| I'll listen not too near you | R |
| For oh no matter how you smile | U |
| I fear you Time I fear you | R |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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