A Comparison Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFGHHThe lapse of time and rivers is the same | A |
Both speed their journey with a restless stream | B |
The silent pace with which they steal away | C |
No wealth can bribe no prayers persuade to stay | C |
Alike irrevocable both when past | D |
And a wide ocean swallows both at last | D |
Though each resemble each in every part | E |
A difference strikes at length the musing heart | E |
Streams never flow in vain where streams abound | F |
How laughs the land with various plenty crown d | G |
But time that should enrich the nobler mind | H |
Neglected leaves a dreary waste behind | H |
William Cowper
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