Time And The Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBG FHIJKBLMNOPQKRSKHTBS S USHKSNSKKN| Time and the Earth | A |
| The old Father and Mother | B |
| Their teeming accomplished | C |
| Their purpose fulfilled | D |
| Close with a smile | E |
| For a moment of kindness | F |
| Ere for the winter | B |
| They settle to sleep | G |
| - | |
| Failing yet gracious | F |
| Slow pacing soon homing | H |
| A patriarch that strolls | I |
| Through the tents of his children | J |
| The Sun as he journeys | K |
| His round on the lower | B |
| Ascents of the blue | L |
| Washes the roofs | M |
| And the hillsides with clarity | N |
| Charms the dark pools | O |
| Till they break into pictures | P |
| Scatters magnificent | Q |
| Alms to the beggar trees | K |
| Touches the mist folk | R |
| That crowd to his escort | S |
| Into translucencies | K |
| Radiant and ravishing | H |
| As with the visible | T |
| Spirit of Summer | B |
| Gloriously vaporised | S |
| Visioned in gold | S |
| - | |
| Love though the fallen leaf | U |
| Mark and the fleeting light | S |
| And the loud loitering | H |
| Footfall of darkness | K |
| Sign to the heart | S |
| Of the passage of destiny | N |
| Here is the ghost | S |
| Of a summer that lived for us | K |
| Here is a promise | K |
| Of summers to be | N |
William Ernest Henley
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