Time's Defeat Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHI JKLMFNOPQRSTN UVF| Time has made conquest of so many things | A |
| That once were mine Swift footed eager youth | B |
| That ran to meet the years bold brigand health | C |
| That broke all laws of reason unafraid | D |
| And laughed at talk of punishment Close ties | E |
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| Of blood and friendship and that joy of life | F |
| Which reads its music in the major key | G |
| And will not listen to a minor strain | H |
| These things and many more are spoils of time | I |
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| Yet as a conqueror who only storms | J |
| The outposts of a town and finds the fort | K |
| Too strong to be assailed so time retreats | L |
| And knows his impotence He cannot take | M |
| My three great jewels from the crown of life | F |
| Love sympathy and faith and year on year | N |
| He sees them grow in lustre and in worth | O |
| And glowers by me plucking at his beard | P |
| And dragging as he goes a useless scythe | Q |
| Once in the dark he plotted with his friend | R |
| Grim death to steal my treasures Death replied | S |
| 'They are immortal and beyond thy reach | T |
| I could but set them in another sphere | N |
| To shine with greater lustre ' | - |
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| Time and Death | U |
| Passed on together knowing their defeat | V |
| And I am singing by the road of life | F |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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