Reflections From The Flash Of A Meteor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDC EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN| A | |
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| So teach me to regard my day | B |
| How small a point my life appears | C |
| One gleam to death the whole betrays | D |
| A momentary flash of years | C |
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| One moment smiles the scene is past | E |
| Life's gaudy bloom at once we shed | F |
| And thinly beneath affliction's blast | E |
| Or drop as soon among the dead | F |
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| Short is the chain wound up at morn | G |
| Which oft runs down and stops at noon | H |
| Thus in a moment man is born | G |
| And lo the creature dies as soon | H |
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| Life's little torch how soon forgot | I |
| Dim burning on its dreary shore | J |
| Just like that star which downwards shot | I |
| It glimmers and is seen no more | J |
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| Teach me to draw this transient breath | K |
| With conscious awe my end to prove | L |
| Early to make my peace with death | K |
| As thus in haste from time we move | L |
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| heaven through this murky vale | M |
| Direct me with a burning pen | N |
| Thus shall I on a tuneful gale | M |
| Fleet out my threescore years and ten | N |
George Moses Horton
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