Times Go By Turns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDE FGFGHH IJIJKK LMLMKK| The lopp egrave d tree in time may grow again | A |
| Most naked plants renew both fruit and flower | B |
| The sorest wight may find release of pain | C |
| The driest soil suck in some moist'ning shower | B |
| Times go by turns and chances change by course | D |
| From foul to fair from better hap to worse | E |
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| The sea of Fortune doth not ever flow | F |
| She draws her favours to the lowest ebb | G |
| Her tides hath equal times to come and go | F |
| Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web | G |
| No joy so great but runneth to an end | H |
| No hap so hard but may in fine amend | H |
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| Not always fall of leaf nor ever spring | I |
| No endless night yet not eternal day | J |
| The saddest birds a season find to sing | I |
| The roughest storm a calm may soon allay | J |
| Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all | K |
| That man may hope to rise yet fear to fall | K |
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| A chance may win that by mischance was lost | L |
| The net that holds no great takes little fish | M |
| In some things all in all things none are crost | L |
| Few all they need but none have all they wish | M |
| Unmeddled joys here to no man befall | K |
| Who least hath some who most hath never all | K |
Robert Southwell
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