Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCDDEEFGHIJKLMMJ NOONAAHHEEPPQQREESER| Time is the feather'd thing | A |
| And whilst I praise | B |
| The sparklings of thy looks and call them rays | B |
| Takes wing | A |
| Leaving behind him as he flies | C |
| An unperceiv egrave d dimness in thine eyes | C |
| His minutes whilst they're told | D |
| Do make us old | D |
| And every sand of his fleet glass | E |
| Increasing age as it doth pass | E |
| Insensibly sows wrinkles there | F |
| Where flowers and roses do appear | G |
| Whilst we do speak our fire | H |
| Doth into ice expire | I |
| Flames turn to frost | J |
| And ere we can | K |
| Know how our crow turns swan | L |
| Or how a silver snow | M |
| Springs there where jet did grow | M |
| Our fading spring is in dull winter lost | J |
| Since then the Night hath hurl'd | N |
| Darkness Love's shade | O |
| Over its enemy the Day and made | O |
| The world | N |
| Just such a blind and shapeless thing | A |
| As 'twas before light did from darkness spring | A |
| Let us employ its treasure | H |
| And make shade pleasure | H |
| Let 's number out the hours by blisses | E |
| And count the minutes by our kisses | E |
| Let the heavens new motions feel | P |
| And by our embraces wheel | P |
| And whilst we try the way | Q |
| By which Love doth convey | Q |
| Soul unto soul | R |
| And mingling so | E |
| Makes them such raptures know | E |
| As makes them entranc egrave d lie | S |
| In mutual ecstasy | E |
| Let the harmonious spheres in music roll | R |
Jasper Mayne
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