Open, Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DEDE FGFH IJIJ KL KL DADAOpen Time and let him pass | A |
Shortly where his feet would be | B |
Like a leaf at Michaelmas | A |
Swooning from the tree | B |
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Ere its hour the manly mind | C |
Trembles in a sure decrease | A |
Nor the body now can find | C |
Any hold on peace | A |
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Take him weak and overworn | D |
Fold about his dying dream | E |
Boyhood and the April morn | D |
And the rolling stream | E |
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Weather on a sunny ridge | F |
Showery weather far from here | G |
Under some deep ivied bridge | F |
Water rushing clear | H |
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Water quick to cross and part | I |
Golden light on silver sound | J |
Weather that was next his heart | I |
All the world around | J |
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Soon upon his vision break | K |
These in their remembered blue | L |
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He shall toil no more but wake | K |
Young in air he knew | L |
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He has done with roofs and men | D |
Open Time and let him pass | A |
Vague and innocent again | D |
Into country grass | A |
Louise Imogen Guiney
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