To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DEDE FGFG| Gather ye rosebuds while ye may | A |
| Old Time is still a flying | B |
| And this same flower that smiles today | A |
| Tomorrow will be dying | B |
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| The glorious lamp of heaven the sun | C |
| The higher he's a getting | B |
| The sooner will his race be run | C |
| And nearer he's to setting | B |
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| That age is best which is the first | D |
| When youth and blood are warmer | E |
| But being spent the worse and worst | D |
| Times still succeed the former | E |
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| Then be not coy but use your time | F |
| And while ye may go marry | G |
| For having lost but once your prime | F |
| You may forever tarry | G |
Robert Herrick
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