Time, Beauty's Friend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCB DEDEDE FGFGFG HIHIHI| Is she still beautiful I asked of one | A |
| Who of the unforgotten faces told | B |
| That for long years I had not looked upon | C |
| Beautiful still but she is growing old | B |
| And for a space I sorrowed thinking on | C |
| That face of April gold | B |
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| Then up the summer night the moon arose | D |
| Glassing her sacred beauty in the sea | E |
| That ever at her feet in silver flows | D |
| And with her rising came a thought to me | E |
| How ever old and ever young she grows | D |
| And still more lovely she | E |
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| Thereat I smiled thinking on lovely things | F |
| That dateless and immortal beauty wear | G |
| Whereof the song immortal tireless sings | F |
| And Time but touches to make lovelier | G |
| On Beauty sempiternal as the Spring's | F |
| So old are all things fair | G |
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| Then for that face I cast aside my fears | H |
| For changing Time is Beauty's changeless friend | I |
| That never reaches but for ever nears | H |
| Tireless the old perfections to transcend | I |
| Fairness more fair to fashion with the years | H |
| And loveliest to end | I |
Richard Le Gallienne
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