Autumn And Winter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BAC ABAB DEDE EDE DEDE FGFG GFG FGFG HIHI IHI HIHI| Three months bade wane and wax the wintering moon | A |
| Between two dates of death while men were fain | B |
| Yet of the living light that all too soon | A |
| Three months bade wane | B |
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| Cold autumn wan with wrath of wind and rain | B |
| Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune | A |
| That death smote silent when he smote again | C |
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| First went my friend in life's mid light of noon | A |
| Who loved the lord of music then the strain | B |
| Whence earth was kindled like as heaven in June | A |
| Three months bade wane | B |
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| A herald soul before its master's flying | D |
| Touched by some few moons first the darkling goal | E |
| Where shades rose up to greet the shade espying | D |
| A herald soul | E |
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| Shades of dead lords of music who control | E |
| Men living by the might of men undying | D |
| With strength of strains that make delight of dole | E |
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| The deep dense dust on death's dim threshold lying | D |
| Trembled with sense of kindling sound that stole | E |
| Through darkness and the night gave ear descrying | D |
| A herald soul | E |
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| One went before one after but so fast | F |
| They seem gone hence together from the shore | G |
| Whence we now gaze yet ere the mightier passed | F |
| One went before | G |
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| One whose whole heart of love being set of yore | G |
| On that high joy which music lends us cast | F |
| Light round him forth of music's radiant store | G |
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| Then went while earth on winter glared aghast | F |
| The mortal god he worshipped through the door | G |
| Wherethrough so late his lover to the last | F |
| One went before | G |
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| A star had set an hour before the sun | H |
| Sank from the skies wherethrough his heart's pulse yet | I |
| Thrills audibly but few took heed or none | H |
| A star had set | I |
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| All heaven rings back sonorous with regret | I |
| The deep dirge of the sunset how should one | H |
| Soft star be missed in all the concourse met | I |
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| But O sweet single heart whose work is done | H |
| Whose songs are silent how should I forget | I |
| That ere the sunset's fiery goal was won | H |
| A star had set | I |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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