Hendecasyllabics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHEIJHKLMNOOPQ RNSPRKKOENTRBRNNRN| In the month of the long decline of roses | A |
| I beholding the summer dead before me | B |
| Set my face to the sea and journeyed silent | C |
| Gazing eagerly where above the sea mark | D |
| Flame as fierce as the fervid eyes of lions | E |
| Half divided the eyelids of the sunset | F |
| Till I heard as it were a noise of waters | G |
| Moving tremulous under feet of angels | H |
| Multitudinous out of all the heavens | E |
| Knew the fluttering wind the fluttered foliage | I |
| Shaken fitfully full of sound and shadow | J |
| And saw trodden upon by noiseless angels | H |
| Long mysterious reaches fed with moonlight | K |
| Sweet sad straits in a soft subsiding channel | L |
| Blown about by the lips of winds I knew not | M |
| Winds not born in the north nor any quarter | N |
| Winds not warm with the south nor any sunshine | O |
| Heard between them a voice of exultation | O |
| Lo the summer is dead the sun is faded | P |
| Even like as a leaf the year is withered | Q |
| All the fruits of the day from all her branches | R |
| Gathered neither is any left to gather | N |
| All the flowers are dead the tender blossoms | S |
| All are taken away the season wasted | P |
| Like an ember among the fallen ashes | R |
| Now with light of the winter days with moonlight | K |
| Light of snow and the bitter light of hoarfrost | K |
| We bring flowers that fade not after autumn | O |
| Pale white chaplets and crowns of latter seasons | E |
| Fair false leaves but the summer leaves were falser | N |
| Woven under the eyes of stars and planets | T |
| When low light was upon the windy reaches | R |
| Where the flower of foam was blown a lily | B |
| Dropt among the sonorous fruitless furrows | R |
| And green fields of the sea that make no pasture | N |
| Since the winter begins the weeping winter | N |
| All whose flowers are tears and round his temples | R |
| Iron blossom of frost is bound for ever | N |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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