On Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDCEEFFGHIIJJKL LK| Fly envious Time till thou run out thy race | A |
| Call on the lazy leaden stepping hours | B |
| Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets pace | A |
| And glut thy self with what thy womb devours | B |
| Which is no more then what is false and vain | C |
| And meerly mortal dross | D |
| So little is our loss | D |
| So little is thy gain | C |
| For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd | E |
| And last of all thy greedy self consum'd | E |
| Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss | F |
| With an individual kiss | F |
| And Joy shall overtake us as a flood | G |
| When every thing that is sincerely good | H |
| And perfectly divine | I |
| With Truth and Peace and Love shall ever shine | I |
| About the supreme Throne | J |
| Of him t'whose happy making sight alone | J |
| When once our heav'nly guided soul shall clime | K |
| Then all this Earthy grosnes quit | L |
| Attir'd with Stars we shall for ever sit | L |
| Triumphing over Death and Chance and thee O Time | K |
John Milton
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