In Autumn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCDE FGFGF HIHIH JKJKJ IDIDI LKLKL MNMDM OPOPO DQNQD| The leaves are many under my feet | A |
| And drift one way | B |
| Their scent of death is weary and sweet | A |
| A flight of them is in the grey | B |
| Where sky and forest meet | A |
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| The low winds moan for sad sweet years | C |
| The birds sing all for pain | D |
| Of a common thing to weary ears | C |
| Only a summer's fate of rain | D |
| And a woman's fate of tears | E |
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| I walk to love and life alone | F |
| Over these mournful places | G |
| Across the summer overthrown | F |
| The dead joys of these silent faces | G |
| To claim my own | F |
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| I know his heart has beat to bright | H |
| Sweet loves gone by | I |
| I know the leaves that die to night | H |
| Once budded to the sky | I |
| And I shall die from his delight | H |
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| O leaves so quietly ending now | J |
| You heard the cuckoos sing | K |
| And I will grow upon my bough | J |
| If only for a spring | K |
| And fall when the rain is on my brow | J |
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| O tell me tell me ere you die | I |
| Is it worth the pain | D |
| You bloomed so fair you waved so high | I |
| Now that the sad days wane | D |
| Are you repenting where you lie | I |
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| I lie amongst you and I kiss | L |
| Your fragrance mouldering | K |
| O dead delights is it such bliss | L |
| That tuneful Spring | K |
| Is love so sweet that comes to this | L |
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| Kiss me again as I kiss you | M |
| Kiss me again | N |
| For all your tuneful nights of dew | M |
| In this your time of rain | D |
| For all your kisses when Spring was new | M |
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| You will not broken hearts let be | O |
| I pass across your death | P |
| To a golden summer you shall not see | O |
| And in your dying breath | P |
| There is no benison for me | O |
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| There is an autumn yet to wane | D |
| There are leaves yet to fall | Q |
| Which when I kiss may kiss again | N |
| And pitied pity me all for all | Q |
| And love me in mist and rain | D |
Alice Meynell
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