Love And Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCBDD EFEFGHGHDD ICICJBJBDD| 'Tis said but whether true or not | A |
| Let bards declare who've seen 'em | B |
| That Love and Time have only got | A |
| One pair of wings between 'em | B |
| In Courtship's first delicious hour | C |
| The boy full oft can spare 'em | B |
| So loitering in his lady's bower | C |
| He lets the gray beard wear 'em | B |
| Then is Time's hour of play | D |
| Oh how be flies flies away | D |
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| But short the moments short as bright | E |
| When he the wings can borrow | F |
| If Time to day has had his flight | E |
| Love takes his turn to morrow | F |
| Ah Time and Love your change is then | G |
| The saddest and most trying | H |
| When one begins to limp again | G |
| And t'other takes to flying | H |
| Then is Love's hour to stray | D |
| Oh how he flies flies away | D |
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| But there's a nymph whose chains I feel | I |
| And bless the silken fetter | C |
| Who knows the dear one how to deal | I |
| With Love and Time much better | C |
| So well she checks their wanderings | J |
| So peacefully she pairs 'em | B |
| That Love with her ne'er thinks of wings | J |
| And Time for ever wears 'em | B |
| This is Time's holiday | D |
| Oh how he flies flies away | D |
Thomas Moore
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