To Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJ KLKLMBMGNONOPQPQRDRD| Time on whose arbitrary wing | A |
| The varying hours must flag or fly | B |
| Whose tardy winter fleeting spring | A |
| But drag or drive us on to die | B |
| Hail thou who on my birth bestowed | C |
| Those boons to all that know thee known | D |
| Yet better I sustain thy load | C |
| For now I bear the weight alone | D |
| I would not one fond heart should share | E |
| The bitter moments thou hast given | F |
| And pardon thee since thou couldst spare | E |
| All that I loved to peace or Heaven | F |
| To them be joy or rest on me | G |
| Thy future ills shall press in vain | H |
| I nothing owe but years to thee | G |
| A debt already paid in pain | H |
| Yet even that pain was some relief | I |
| It felt but still forgot thy power | J |
| The active agony of grief | I |
| Retards but never counts the hour | J |
| In joy I've sighed to think thy flight | K |
| Would soon subside from swift to slow | L |
| Thy cloud could overcast the light | K |
| But could not add a night to Woe | L |
| For then however drear and dark | M |
| My soul was suited to thy sky | B |
| One star alone shot forth a spark | M |
| To prove thee not Eternity | G |
| That beam hath sunk and now thou art | N |
| A blank a thing to count and curse | O |
| Through each dull tedious trifling part | N |
| Which all regret yet all rehearse | O |
| One scene even thou canst not deform | P |
| The limit of thy sloth or speed | Q |
| When future wanderers bear the storm | P |
| Which we shall sleep too sound to heed | Q |
| And I can smile to think how weak | R |
| Thine efforts shortly shall be shown | D |
| When all the vengeance thou canst wreak | R |
| Must fall upon a nameless stone | D |
George Gordon Byron
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