How Soon Hath Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCABBADEFGDF| How soon hath Time the subtle thief of youth | A |
| Stoln on his wing my three and twentieth year | B |
| My hasting days fly on wtih full career | B |
| But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th | C |
| Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth | A |
| That I to manhood am arrived so near | B |
| And inward ripeness doth much less appear | B |
| That some more timely happy spirits endu'th | A |
| Yet be it less or more or soon or slow | D |
| It shall be still in strictest measure even | E |
| To that same lot however mean or high | F |
| Toward which Time leads me and the will of Heaven | G |
| All is if I have grace to use it so | D |
| As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye | F |
John Milton
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