Passer Le Temps Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GEGEHH IJIJAA| So that's the way you pass your time | A |
| Indeed your charming frank confession | B |
| Betrays no sort of heinous crime | A |
| But marks a wonderful digression | B |
| From puritanic views less bold | C |
| That we were early taught to hold | C |
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| Passer le temps of course implies | D |
| A little cycle of flirtations | E |
| Wherein the actors never rise | D |
| To sober serious relations | E |
| But play just for amusement's sake | F |
| A harmless game of give and take | F |
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| While moments pass on pinions fleet | G |
| And youth in beauty effloresces | E |
| The joy that finds itself complete | G |
| In honeyed words and soft caresses | E |
| Alas an index seems to be | H |
| Of perilous inconstancy | H |
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| It may be with disdainful smile | I |
| You greet this comment from a stranger | J |
| Your pleasure paths pursuing while | I |
| A siren voice discounts the danger | J |
| Until some day in sadder rhyme | A |
| You rue your mode of passing time | A |
Hattie Howard
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