To An Hour-glass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDCCEFEG| Old fashioned uncouth measurer of the day | A |
| I love to watch thy filtering burthen pass | B |
| Though some there are that live would bid thee stay | A |
| But these view reasons through a different glass | B |
| From him Time's meter who addresses thee | C |
| The world has joys which they may deem as such | D |
| The world has wealth to season vanity | C |
| And wealth is theirs to make their vainness much | D |
| But small to do with joys and Fortune's fee | C |
| Hath he Time's chronicler who welcomes thee | C |
| So jog thou on through hours of doom'd distress | E |
| So haste thou on the glimpse of hopes to come | F |
| As every sand grain counts a trouble less | E |
| As every drain'd glass leaves me nearer home | G |
John Clare
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