Time And Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EBFBGHGH IBIBHCHC| Time flies The swift hours hurry by | A |
| And speed us on to untried ways | B |
| New seasons ripen perish die | A |
| And yet love stays | B |
| The old old love like sweet at first | C |
| At last like bitter wine | D |
| I know not if it blest or curst | C |
| Thy life and mine | D |
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| Time flies In vain our prayers our tears | E |
| We cannot tempt him to delays | B |
| Down to the past he bears the years | F |
| And yet love stays | B |
| Through changing task and varying dream | G |
| We hear the same refrain | H |
| As one can hear a plaintive theme | G |
| Run through each strain | H |
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| Time flies He steals out pulsing youth | I |
| He robs us of our care free days | B |
| He takes away our trust and truth | I |
| And yet love stays | B |
| O Time take love When love is vain | H |
| When all its best joys die | C |
| When only its regrets remain | H |
| Let love too fly | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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