Out Of Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFEA GHGH II IJIJKLKL MKMK NN NONOPQPQ RGRG KK| A | |
| I saw Time flowing like a hundred yachts | B |
| That fly behind the daylight foxed with air | C |
| Or piercing like the quince bright bitter slats | D |
| Of sun gone thrusting under Harbour's hair | C |
| So Time the wave enfolds me in its bed | E |
| Or Time the bony knife it runs me through | F |
| 'Skulker take heart ' I thought my own heart said | E |
| 'The flood the blade go by Time flows not you ' | A |
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| Vilely continuously stupidly | G |
| Time takes me drills me drives through bone and vein | H |
| So water bends the seaweeds in the sea | G |
| The tide goes over but the weeds remain | H |
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| Time you must cry farewell take up the track | I |
| And leave this lovely moment at your back | I |
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| II | - |
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| Time leaves the lovely moment at his back | I |
| Eager to quench and ripen kiss or kill | J |
| To morrow begs him breathless for his lack | I |
| Or beauty dead entreats him to be still | J |
| His fate pursues him he must open doors | K |
| Or close them for that pale and faceless host | L |
| Without a flag whose agony implores | K |
| Birth to be flesh or funeral to be ghost | L |
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| Out of all reckoning out of dark and light | M |
| Over the edges of dead Nows and Heres | K |
| Blindly and softly as a mistress might | M |
| He keeps appointments with a million years | K |
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| I and the moment laugh and let him go | N |
| Leaning against his golden undertow | N |
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| III | - |
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| Leaning against the golden undertow | N |
| Backward I saw the birds begin to climb | O |
| with bodies hailstone clear and shadows flow | N |
| Fixed in a sweet meniscus out of Time | O |
| Out of the torrent like the fainter land | P |
| Lensed in a bubble's ghostly camera | Q |
| The lighted beach the sharp and china sand | P |
| Glitters and waters and peninsula | Q |
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| The moment's world it was and I was part | R |
| Fleshless and ageless changeless and made free | G |
| 'Fool would you leave this country ' cried my heart | R |
| But I was taken by the suck of sea | G |
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| The gulls go down the body dies and rots | K |
| And Time flows past them like a hundred yachts | K |
Kenneth Slessor
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