Time's Monotone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCAC DEDE FGFG HI JKK LKL MEME| Autumn and Winter | A |
| Summer and Spring | B |
| Hath Time no other song to sing | B |
| Weary we grow of the changeless tune | C |
| June December | A |
| December June | C |
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| Time like a bird hath but one song | D |
| One way to build like a bird hath he | E |
| Thus hath he built so long so long | D |
| Thus hath he sung Ah me | E |
| - | |
| Time like a spider knows be sure | F |
| One only wile though he seems so wise | G |
| Death is his web and Love his lure | F |
| And you and I his flies | G |
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| 'Love ' he sings | H |
| In the morning clear | I |
| 'Love Love Love ' | - |
| And you never hear | J |
| How under his breath | K |
| He whispers 'Death | K |
| Death Death ' | - |
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| Yet Time 'tis the strangest thing of all | L |
| Knoweth not the sense of the words he saith | K |
| Eternity taught him his parrot call | L |
| Of 'Love and Death ' | - |
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| Year after year doth the old man climb | M |
| The mountainous knees of Eternity | E |
| But Eternity telleth nothing to Time | M |
| It may not be | E |
Richard Le Gallienne
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