Ne'er Ask The Hour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAACACAAAA ADADEDFDAAAA| Ne'er ask the hour what is it to us | A |
| How Time deals out his treasures | B |
| The golden moments lent us thus | A |
| Are not his coin but Pleasure's | A |
| If counting them o'er could add to their blisses | A |
| I'd number each glorious second | C |
| But moments of joy are like Lesbia's kisses | A |
| Too quick and sweet to be reckon'd | C |
| Then fill the cup what is it to us | A |
| How time his circle measures | A |
| The fairy hours we call up thus | A |
| Obey no wand but Pleasure's | A |
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| Young Joy ne'er thought of counting hours | A |
| Till Care one summer's morning | D |
| Set up among his smiling flowers | A |
| A dial by way of warning | D |
| But Joy loved better to gaze on the sun | E |
| As long as its light was glowing | D |
| Than to watch with old Care how the shadow stole on | F |
| And how fast that light was going | D |
| So fill the cup what is it to us | A |
| How time his circle measures | A |
| The fairy hours we call up thus | A |
| Obey no wand but Pleasure's | A |
Thomas Moore
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