Time How Short Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKM NOPOQRSR| Time with an unwearied hand | A |
| Pushes round the seasons past | B |
| And in life's frail glass the sand | A |
| Sinks apace not long to last | B |
| Many well as you or I | C |
| Who last year assembled thus | D |
| In their silent graves now lie | C |
| Graves will open soon for us | D |
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| Daily sin and care and strife | E |
| While the Lord prolongs our breath | F |
| Make it but a dying life | E |
| Or a kind of living death | F |
| Wretched they and most forlorn | G |
| Who no better portion know | H |
| Better ne'er to have been born | G |
| Than to have our all below | H |
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| When constrained to go alone | I |
| Leaving all you love behind | J |
| Ent'ring on a world unknown | I |
| What will then support your mind | J |
| When the Lord his summons sends | K |
| Earthly comforts lose their pow'r | L |
| Honours riches kindred friends | K |
| Cannot cheer a dying hour | M |
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| Happy souls who fear the Lord | N |
| Time is not too swift for you | O |
| When your Saviour gives the word | P |
| Glad you'll bid the world adieu | O |
| Then he'll wipe away your tears | Q |
| Near himself appoint your place | R |
| Swifter fly ye rolling years | S |
| Lord we long to see thy face | R |
John Newton
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