The Widow To Her Hour-glass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDEFFE GHGHIIAJJC KLKLMLNOON PQPQNNCRBA| Come friend I'll turn thee up again | A |
| Companion of the lonely hour | B |
| Spring thirty times hath fed with rain | C |
| And cloath'd with leaves my humble bower | B |
| Since thou hast stood | D |
| In frame of wood | D |
| On Chest or Window by my side | E |
| At every Birth still thou wert near | F |
| Still spoke thine admonitions clear | F |
| And when my Husband died | E |
| - | |
| I've often watch'd thy streaming sand | G |
| And seen the growing Mountain rise | H |
| And often found Life's hopes to stand | G |
| On props as weak in Wisdom's eyes | H |
| Its conic crown | I |
| Still sliding down | I |
| Again heap'd up then down again | A |
| The sand above more hollow grew | J |
| Like days and years still filt'ring through | J |
| And mingling joy and pain | C |
| - | |
| While thus I spin and sometimes sing | K |
| For now and then my heart will glow | L |
| Thou measur'st Time's expanding wing | K |
| By thee the noontide hour I know | L |
| Though silent thou | M |
| Still shalt thou flow | L |
| And jog along thy destin'd way | N |
| But when I glean the sultry fields | O |
| When Earth her yellow Harvest yields | O |
| Thou get'st a Holiday | N |
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| Steady as Truth on either end | P |
| Thy daily task performing well | Q |
| Thou'rt Meditation's constant friend | P |
| And strik'st the Heart without a Bell | Q |
| Come lovely May | N |
| Thy lengthen'd day | N |
| Shall gild once more thy native plain | C |
| Curl inward here sweet Woodbine flow'r | R |
| 'Companion of the lonely hour | B |
| 'I'll turn thee up again | A |
Robert Bloomfield
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The Widow To Her Hour-glass is a poem by Robert Bloomfield. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.