High Noon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHIJEKLMNOPQRSTUVT EWXYZA2 B2C2AD2 E2C2F2G2H2I2J2K2LL2C 2| Time s finger on the dial of my life | A |
| Points to high noon And yet the half spent day | B |
| Leaves less than half remaining for the dark | C |
| Bleak shadows of the grave engulf the end | D |
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| To those who burn the candle to the stick | E |
| The sputtering socket yields but little light | F |
| Long life is sadder than early death | G |
| We cannot count on raveled threads of age | H |
| Whereof to weave a fabric We must use | I |
| The warp and woof the ready present yields | J |
| And toils while daylight lasts When I bethink | E |
| How brief the past the future still more brief | K |
| Calls on to action action Not for me | L |
| Is time for retrospection or for dreams | M |
| Not time for self laudation or remorse | N |
| Have I done nobly Then I must not let | O |
| Dead yesterday unborn to morrow shame | P |
| Have I done wrong Well let the bitter taste | Q |
| Of fruit that turned to ashes on my lip | R |
| Be my reminder in temptations hour | S |
| And keep me silent when I could condemn | T |
| Sometimes it takes the acid of a sin | U |
| To cleanse the clouded windows of our souls | V |
| So pity may shine through them | T |
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| Looking back | E |
| My faults and errors seem like stepping stones | W |
| That led the way to knowledge of the truth | X |
| And made me value virtue sorrows shine | Y |
| In rainbow colours o er the gulf of years | Z |
| Where lie forgotten pleasures | A2 |
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| Looking forth | B2 |
| Out to the westers sky still bright with noon | C2 |
| I feel well spurred and booted for the strife | A |
| That ends not till Nirvana is attained | D2 |
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| Battling with fate with men and with myself | E2 |
| Up the steep summit of my life s forenoon | C2 |
| Three things I learned three things of precious worth | F2 |
| To guide and help me down the western slope | G2 |
| I have learned how to pray and toil and save | H2 |
| To pray for courage to receive what comes | I2 |
| Knowing what comes to be divinely sent | J2 |
| To toil for universal good since thus | K2 |
| And only thus can good come unto me | L |
| To save by giving whatsoe er I have | L2 |
| To those who have not this alone is gain | C2 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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