The Lapse Of Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQR STST UVUV BNBN WXYX ZLZL| Lament who will in fruitless tears | A |
| The speed with which our moments fly | B |
| I sigh not over vanished years | C |
| But watch the years that hasten by | B |
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| Look how they come a mingled crowd | D |
| Of bright and dark but rapid days | E |
| Beneath them like a summer cloud | D |
| The wide world changes as I gaze | E |
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| What grieve that time has brought so soon | F |
| The sober age of manhood on | G |
| As idly might I weep at noon | F |
| To see the blush of morning gone | H |
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| Could I give up the hopes that glow | I |
| In prospect like Elysian isles | J |
| And let the cheerful future go | I |
| With all her promises and smiles | J |
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| The future cruel were the power | K |
| Whose doom would tear thee from my heart | L |
| Thou sweetener of the present hour | K |
| We cannot no we will not part | L |
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| Oh leave me still the rapid flight | M |
| That makes the changing seasons gay | N |
| The grateful speed that brings the night | M |
| The swift and glad return of day | N |
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| The months that touch with added grace | O |
| This little prattler at my knee | P |
| In whose arch eye and speaking face | O |
| New meaning every hour I see | P |
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| The years that o'er each sister land | Q |
| Shall lift the country of my birth | R |
| And nurse her strength till she shall stand | Q |
| The pride and pattern of the earth | R |
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| Till younger commonwealths for aid | S |
| Shall cling about her ample robe | T |
| And from her frown shall shrink afraid | S |
| The crowned oppressors of the globe | T |
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| True time will seam and blanch my brow | U |
| Well I shall sit with aged men | V |
| And my good glass will tell me how | U |
| A grizzly beard becomes me then | V |
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| And then should no dishonour lie | B |
| Upon my head when I am gray | N |
| Love yet shall watch my fading eye | B |
| And smooth the path of my decay | N |
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| Then haste thee Time 'tis kindness all | W |
| That speeds thy winged feet so fast | X |
| Thy pleasures stay not till they pall | Y |
| And all thy pains are quickly past | X |
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| Thou fliest and bear'st away our woes | Z |
| And as thy shadowy train depart | L |
| The memory of sorrow grows | Z |
| A lighter burden on the heart | L |
William Cullen Bryant
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