A Clock Striking Midnight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDBEFGFHFII JKJKJKLELELEMM| Hark to the echo of Time s footsteps gone | A |
| Thise moments are into the unseen grave | B |
| Of ages Thy have vanished nameless None | C |
| While they are deep under the eddying wave | B |
| Of the chaotic past shall placea stone | D |
| Sacred to these the nurses of the brave | B |
| The mighty and the good Futurity | E |
| Broods on the ocean hatching neath her wing | F |
| Invisible to man the century | G |
| That on its hundered feet a sluggish thing | F |
| Gnawing away the world shall totter by | H |
| And sweep dead mortals with it As I sing | F |
| Time the colossus of the world that strides | I |
| With each foot plunged in darkness silent glides | I |
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| And puffs death s cloud upon us It is vain | J |
| To struggle with the tide we all must sink | K |
| Still grasping the thin air with frantic pain | J |
| Grappling with Fame to buoy us Can we think | K |
| Eternity by whom swift Time is slain | J |
| And dragged along to dark destruction s brink | K |
| Shall be the echo of man s puny words | L |
| Or that our grovelling thoughts shall e er be writ | E |
| In never fading stars or like proud birds | L |
| Undazzled in their cloud built eyrie sit | E |
| Clutching the lightning or in darting herds | L |
| Diving amid the sea s vast treasury flit | E |
| Sink painted clay back to thy parent earth | M |
| While the glad spirit seeks a brighter birth | M |
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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