The Hour-glass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEBB| That hour glass which there you see | A |
| With water fill'd sirs credit me | A |
| The humour was as I have read | B |
| But lovers' tears incrystalled | B |
| Which as they drop by drop do pass | C |
| From th' upper to the under glass | C |
| Do in a trickling manner tell | D |
| By many a watery syllable | E |
| That lovers' tears in lifetime shed | B |
| Do restless run when they are dead | B |
Robert Herrick
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