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Time is a recurring motif in "there will come soft rains" because time _____.

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That is because time symbolizes chaos. It is similar to what is seen in the poem Ozymandias. Time is not something that can be controlled or something that we can beat. It's passage is inevitable and we can only let it take over.
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