Now And Then. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCC DEDECC FGHGCC IJIJCC KLKLCC| Did we but know what lurks beyond the NOW | A |
| Could we but see what the dim future hides | B |
| Had we some power occult that would us show | C |
| The joy and sorrow which in THEN abides | B |
| Would life be happier or less fraught with woe | C |
| Did we but know | C |
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| I long yet fear to pierce those clouds ahead | D |
| To solve life's secrets learn what means this death | E |
| Are fresh joys waiting for the silent dead | D |
| Or do we perish with am fleeting breath | E |
| If not then whither will the spirit go | C |
| Did we but know | C |
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| 'Tis all a mist Reason can naught explain | F |
| We dream and scheme for what to morrow brings | G |
| We sleep perchance and never wake again | H |
| Nor taste life's joys or suffer sorrow's stings | G |
| Will the soul soar or will it sink below | C |
| How can we know | C |
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| You must have Faith How can a mortal weak | I |
| Pin faith on what he cannot comprehend | J |
| We grope for light but all in vain we seek | I |
| Oblivion seems poor mortal's truest friend | J |
| Like bats at noonday blindly on we go | C |
| For naught we know | C |
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| Yet why should we repine Could we but see | K |
| Our lifelong journey with its ups and downs | L |
| Ambition hope and longings all would flee | K |
| Indifferent alike to smiles and frowns | L |
| 'Tis better as it is It must be so | C |
| We ne'er can know | C |
John Hartley
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