Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBACBDEDEDD FGHFFGGFIJIIJK| A | |
| The ticking ticking ticking of the clock | B |
| That vexed me so last night 'For though Time keeps | C |
| Such drowsy watch ' I moaned 'he never sleeps | C |
| But only nods above the world to mock | B |
| Its restless occupant then rudely rock | B |
| It as the cradle of a babe that weeps ' | A |
| I seemed to see the seconds piled in heaps | C |
| Like sand about me and at every shock | B |
| O' the bell the piled sands were swirled away | D |
| As by a desert storm that swept the earth | E |
| Stark as a granary floor whereon the gray | D |
| And mist bedrizzled moon amidst the dearth | E |
| Came crawling like a sickly child to lay | D |
| Its pale face next mine own and weep for day | D |
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| Wait for the morning Ah We wait indeed | F |
| For daylight we who toss about through stress | G |
| Of vacant armed desires and emptiness | H |
| Of all the warm warm touches that we need | F |
| And the warm kisses upon which we feed | F |
| Our famished lips in fancy May God bless | G |
| The starved lips of us with but one caress | G |
| Warm as the yearning blood our poor hearts bleed | F |
| A wild prayer Bite thy pillow praying so | I |
| Toss this side and whirl that and moan for dawn | J |
| Let the clock's seconds dribble out their woe | I |
| And Time be drained of sorrow Long ago | I |
| We heard the crowing cock with answer drawn | J |
| As hoarsely sad at throat as sobs Pray on | K |
James Whitcomb Riley
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