As Dies The Year Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACCA DEEDFFD GDDHDDI JKKJLLJ| The Old Year knocks at the farmhouse door | A |
| October come with your matron gaze | B |
| From the fruit you are storing for winter days | B |
| And prop him up on the granary floor | A |
| Where the straw lies threshed and the corn stands heaped | C |
| Let him eat of the bread he reaped | C |
| He is feeble and faint and can work no more | A |
| - | |
| Weaker he waneth and weaker yet | D |
| November shower your harvest down | E |
| Chestnut and mast and acorn brown | E |
| For you he laboured so pay the debt | D |
| Make him a pallet he cannot speak | F |
| And a pillow of moss for his pale pinched cheek | F |
| With your golden leaves for coverlet | D |
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| He is numb to touch he is deaf to call | G |
| December hither with muffled tread | D |
| And gaze on the Year for the Year is dead | D |
| And over him cast a wan white pall | H |
| Take down the mattock and ply the spade | D |
| And deep in the clay let his clay be laid | D |
| And snowflakes fall at his funeral | I |
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| Thus may I die since it must be | J |
| My wage well earned and my work days done | K |
| And the seasons following one by one | K |
| To the slow sweet end that the wise foresee | J |
| Fed from the store of my ripened sheaves | L |
| Laid to rest on my fallen leaves | L |
| And with snow white souls to weep for me | J |
Alfred Austin
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