Special Pleading Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA CCDDC AAE A AAFFA GGHHG FFIIF J| Time hurry my Love to me | A |
| Haste haste Lov'st not good company | A |
| Here's but a heart break sandy waste | B |
| 'Twixt Now and Then Why killing haste | B |
| Were best dear Time for thee for thee | A |
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| Oh would that I might divine | C |
| Thy name beyond the zodiac sign | C |
| Wherefrom our times to come descend | D |
| He called thee 'Sometime' Change it friend | D |
| 'Now time' sounds so much more fine | C |
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| Sweet Sometime fly fast to me | A |
| Poor Now time sits in the Lonesome tree | A |
| And broods as gray as any dove | E |
| And calls 'When wilt thou come O Love ' | - |
| And pleads across the waste to thee | A |
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| Good Moment that giv'st him me | A |
| Wast ever in love Maybe maybe | A |
| Thou'lt be this heavenly velvet time | F |
| When Day and Night as rhyme and rhyme | F |
| Set lip to lip dusk modestly | A |
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| Or haply some noon afar | G |
| O life's top bud mixt rose and star | G |
| How ever can thine utmost sweet | H |
| Be star consummate rose complete | H |
| Till thy rich reds full opened are | G |
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| Well be it dusk time or noon time | F |
| I ask but one small boon Time | F |
| Come thou in night come thou in day | I |
| I care not I care not have thine own way | I |
| But only but only come soon Time | F |
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| Baltimore | J |
Sidney Lanier
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