The Golden Year! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDABAB EBEBFGHGEBEB IGIGJKJKIGIG LMLMBDBDD DM| When piped the love warm throstle shrill | A |
| And all the air was laden | B |
| With scent of dew and daffodil | A |
| I saw a youth and maiden | B |
| Whose colour Spring like came and fled | C |
| 'Mong purple copses straying | D |
| While birchen tassels overhead | C |
| Like marriage bells kept swaying | D |
| Filled with that joy that lingers still | A |
| Which Eve brought out of Aiden | B |
| With scent of dew and daffodil | A |
| When all the air was laden | B |
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| When primrose banks turn pale and fade | E |
| And meads wax deep and golden | B |
| And in lush dale and laughing glade | E |
| Summer's gay Court is holden | B |
| Them nestling close again I saw | F |
| Affianced girl and lover | G |
| She looking up with eyes of awe | H |
| To burning gaze above her | G |
| Playing anew the part oft played | E |
| Sung by the poets olden | B |
| When primrose banks turn pale and fade | E |
| And meads wax deep and golden | B |
| - | |
| When autumn woods began to glow | I |
| And autumn sprays to shiver | G |
| Once more I saw them walking slow | I |
| By sedgy rustling river | G |
| The season's flush was on her cheek | J |
| The season's sadness o'er him | K |
| He stroked her hand and bade her speak | J |
| Of all the love she bore him | K |
| That only made her tears to flow | I |
| And chill his heart to quiver | G |
| While autumn woods began to glow | I |
| And autumn sprays to shiver | G |
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| When winter fields stretched stiff and stark | L |
| And wintry winds shrilled eerie | M |
| I saw him creep alone at dark | L |
| Into the churchyard dreary | M |
| He laid him down against the stone | B |
| 'Neath which she aye lay sleeping | D |
| Kissed its cold face with many a moan | B |
| Then loudly fell a weeping | D |
| Oh let me in from lonely cark | D |
| Or come thou back my dearie '' | - |
| But the wintry fields stretched stiff and stark | D |
| And the wintry winds shrilled eerie | M |
Alfred Austin
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