Carpe Diem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGGHIJAKECCCCC LKCIFA| Age saw two quiet children | A |
| Go loving by at twilight | B |
| He knew not whether homeward | C |
| Or outward from the village | D |
| Or chimes were ringing churchward | C |
| He waited they were strangers | E |
| Till they were out of hearing | F |
| To bid them both be happy | G |
| 'Be happy happy happy | G |
| And seize the day of pleasure ' | H |
| The age long theme is Age's | I |
| 'Twas Age imposed on poems | J |
| Their gather roses burden | A |
| To warn against the danger | K |
| That overtaken lovers | E |
| From being overflooded | C |
| With happiness should have it | C |
| And yet not know they have it | C |
| But bid life seize the present | C |
| It lives less in the present | C |
| Than in the future always | L |
| And less in both together | K |
| Than in the past The present | C |
| Is too much for the senses | I |
| Too crowding too confusing | F |
| Too present to imagine | A |
Robert Frost
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