All My Past Life... Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAD EFEEF GHGGH| All my past life is mine no more | A |
| The flying hours are gone | B |
| Like transitory dreams given o'er | C |
| Whose images are kept in store | A |
| By memory alone | D |
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| What ever is to come is not | E |
| How can it then be mine | F |
| The present moment's all my lot | E |
| And that as fast as it is got | E |
| Phyllis is wholly thine | F |
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| Then talk not of inconstancy | G |
| False hearts and broken vows | H |
| Ii by miracle can be | G |
| This live long minute true to thee | G |
| 'Tis all that heaven allows | H |
John Wilmot
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