Slipping Away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHIJ KKLLMM| Slipping away slipping away | A |
| Out of our brief year slips the May | A |
| And Winter lingers and Summer flies | B |
| And Sorrow abideth and Pleasure dies | B |
| And the days are short and the nights are long | C |
| And little is right and much is wrong | C |
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| Slipping away is the Summer time | D |
| It has lost its rhythm and lilting rhyme | D |
| For the grace goes out of the day so soon | E |
| And the tired head aches in the glare of noon | E |
| And the way seems long to the hills that lie | F |
| Under the calm of the western sky | F |
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| Slipping away are the friends whose worth | G |
| Lent a glow to the sad old earth | G |
| One by one they slip from our sight | H |
| One by one their graves gleam white | H |
| Or we count them lost by the crueller death | I |
| Of a trust betrayed or a murdered faith | J |
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| Slipping away are the hopes that made | K |
| Bliss out of sorrow and sun out of shade | K |
| Slipping away is our hold on life | L |
| And out of the struggle and wearing strife | L |
| From joys that diminish and woes that increase | M |
| We are slipping away to the shores of Peace | M |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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