Time How Swift Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFGHIHI JKLKMNMN| While with ceaseless course the sun | A |
| Hasted through the former year | B |
| Many souls their race have run | A |
| Never more to meet us here | C |
| Fixed in an eternal fate | D |
| They have done with all below | E |
| We a little longer wait | D |
| But how little none can know | E |
| - | |
| As the winged arrow flies | F |
| Speedily the mark to find | G |
| As the lightning from the skies | F |
| Darts and leaves no trace behind | G |
| Swiftly thus our fleeting days | H |
| Bear us down life's rapid stream | I |
| Upward Lord our spirits raise | H |
| All below is but a dream | I |
| - | |
| Thanks for mercies past receive | J |
| Pardon of our sins renew | K |
| Teach us henceforth how to live | L |
| With eternity in view | K |
| Bless Thy Word to young and old | M |
| Fill us with a Saviour's love | N |
| And when life's short tale is told | M |
| May we dwell with Thee above | N |
John Newton
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