Time Is A Fading-flowre, That's Found Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGEGEBCBCHEHE BCICIIIICC| Five Termes there be which five I doe apply | A |
| To all that was and is and shall be done | B |
| The first and last is that ETERNITIE | C |
| Which neither shall have End nor was begunne | B |
| BEGINNING is the next which is a space | D |
| Or moment rather scarce imaginarie | E |
| Made when the first Materiall formed was | F |
| And then forbidden longer time time tarry | E |
| TIME entred when BEGINNING had an Ending | G |
| And is a Progresse all the workes of Nature | E |
| Within the circuit of it comprehending | G |
| Ev'n till the period of the Outward creature | E |
| END is the fourth of those five Termes I meane | B |
| As briefe as was Beginning and ordayned | C |
| To set the last of moments to that Scaene | B |
| Which on this Worlds wide Stage is entertayned | C |
| The fifth we EVERLASTING fitly call | H |
| For though it once begunne yet shall it never | E |
| Admit of any future end at all | H |
| But be extended onward still for ever | E |
| The knowledge of these Termes and of what action | B |
| To each of them belongs would set an end | C |
| To many Controversies and Distractions | I |
| Which doe so many trouble and offend | C |
| TIME'S nature by the Fading flowre appeares | I |
| Which is a Type of Transitory things | I |
| The Circled snake ETERNITIE declares | I |
| Within whose Round each fading Creature springs | I |
| Some Riddles more to utter I intended | C |
| But lo a sudden stop my words have ended | C |
George Wither
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