The Times Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAAA CDDCEE FGGFHI| The times are not degenerate Man s faith | A |
| Mounts higher than of old No crumbling creed | B |
| Can take from the immortal soul the need | B |
| Of that supreme Creator God The wraith | A |
| Of dead beliefs we cherished in our youth | A |
| Fades but to let us welcome new born Truth | A |
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| Man may not worship at the ancient shrine | C |
| Prone on his face in self accusing scorn | D |
| That night is past He hails a fairer morn | D |
| And knows himself a something all divine | C |
| No humble worm whose heritage is sin | E |
| But born of God he feels the Christ within | E |
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| Not loud his prayers as in the olden time | F |
| But deep his reverence for that mighty force | G |
| That occult working of the great all Source | G |
| Which makes the present era so sublime | F |
| Religion now means something high and broad | H |
| And man stood never half so near to God | I |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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