The Trance Of Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC ADAE AFAF GHGI JAJA AKAK LALA MNMN OOOO| 'Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas | A |
| Atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum | B |
| Subjecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis avari ' | C |
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| IN childhood when with eager eyes | A |
| The season measured year I view'd | D |
| All garb'd in fairy guise | A |
| Pledged constancy of good | E |
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| Spring sang of heaven the summer flowers | A |
| Bade me gaze on and did not fade | F |
| Even suns o'er autumn's bowers | A |
| Heard my strong wish and stay'd | F |
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| They came and went the short lived four | G |
| Yet as their varying dance they wove | H |
| To my young heart each bore | G |
| Its own sure claim of love | I |
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| Far different now the whirling year | J |
| Vainly my dizzy eyes pursue | A |
| And its fair tints appear | J |
| All blent in one dusk hue | A |
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| Why dwell on rich autumnal lights | A |
| Spring time or winter's social ring | K |
| Long days are fire side nights | A |
| Brown autumn is fresh spring | K |
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| Then what this world to thee my heart | L |
| Its gifts nor feed thee nor can bless | A |
| Thou hast no owner's part | L |
| In all its fleetingness | A |
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| The flame the storm the quaking ground | M |
| Earth's joy earth's terror nought is thine | N |
| Thou must but hear the sound | M |
| Of the still voice divine | N |
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| O priceless art O princely state | O |
| E'en while by sense of change opprest | O |
| Within to antedate | O |
| Heaven's Age of fearless rest | O |
John Henry Newman
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