The City Of Falling Leaves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEBBFGHIJBCC KLMNOPBBQROSLTUIBVBK WKKBHBXYBRZA2YDIBKB2 WO AKBBBKC2TKBBHWIABBA2 YDTKD2KBLDE2BBBKHKBB BBBKYKBADACC BBF2G2H2YBKBDBYYBBBI 2KKBCCADALeaves fall | A |
Brown leaves | B |
Yellow leaves streaked with brown | C |
They fall | A |
Flutter | D |
Fall again | E |
The brown leaves | B |
And the streaked yellow leaves | B |
Loosen on their branches | F |
And drift slowly downwards | G |
One | H |
One two three | I |
One two five | J |
All Venice is a falling of Autumn leaves | B |
Brown | C |
And yellow streaked with brown | C |
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That sonnet Abate | K |
Beautiful | L |
I am quite exhausted by it | M |
Your phrases turn about my heart | N |
And stifle me to swooning | O |
Open the window I beg | P |
Lord What a strumming of fiddles and mandolins | B |
'Tis really a shame to stop indoors | B |
Call my maid or I will make you lace me yourself | Q |
Fie how hot it is not a breath of air | R |
See how straight the leaves are falling | O |
Marianna I will have the yellow satin caught up with silver fringe | S |
It peeps out delightfully from under a mantle | L |
Am I well painted to day 'caro Abate mio' | T |
You will be proud of me at the 'Ridotto' hey | U |
Proud of being 'Cavalier Servente' to such a lady | I |
Can you doubt it 'Bellissima Contessa' | B |
A pinch more rouge on the right cheek | V |
And Venus herself shines less | B |
You bore me Abate | K |
I vow I must change you | W |
A letter Achmet | K |
Run and look out of the window Abate | K |
I will read my letter in peace | B |
The little black slave with the yellow satin turban | H |
Gazes at his mistress with strained eyes | B |
His yellow turban and black skin | X |
Are gorgeous barbaric | Y |
The yellow satin dress with its silver flashings | B |
Lies on a chair | R |
Beside a black mantle and a black mask | Z |
Yellow and black | A2 |
Gorgeous barbaric | Y |
The lady reads her letter | D |
And the leaves drift slowly | I |
Past the long windows | B |
How silly you look my dear Abate | K |
With that great brown leaf in your wig | B2 |
Pluck it off I beg you | W |
Or I shall die of laughing | O |
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A yellow wall | A |
Aflare in the sunlight | K |
Chequered with shadows | B |
Shadows of vine leaves | B |
Shadows of masks | B |
Masks coming printing themselves for an instant | K |
Then passing on | C2 |
More masks always replacing them | T |
Masks with tricorns and rapiers sticking out behind | K |
Pursuing masks with plumes and high heels | B |
The sunlight shining under their insteps | B |
One | H |
One two | W |
One two three | I |
There is a thronging of shadows on the hot wall | A |
Filigreed at the top with moving leaves | B |
Yellow sunlight and black shadows | B |
Yellow and black | A2 |
Gorgeous barbaric | Y |
Two masks stand together | D |
And the shadow of a leaf falls through them | T |
Marking the wall where they are not | K |
From hat tip to shoulder tip | D2 |
From elbow to sword hilt | K |
The leaf falls | B |
The shadows mingle | L |
Blur together | D |
Slide along the wall and disappear | E2 |
Gold of mosaics and candles | B |
And night blackness lurking in the ceiling beams | B |
Saint Mark's glitters with flames and reflections | B |
A cloak brushes aside | K |
And the yellow of satin | H |
Licks out over the coloured inlays of the pavement | K |
Under the gold crucifixes | B |
There is a meeting of hands | B |
Reaching from black mantles | B |
Sighing embraces bold investigations | B |
Hide in confessionals | B |
Sheltered by the shuffling of feet | K |
Gorgeous barbaric | Y |
In its mail of jewels and gold | K |
Saint Mark's looks down at the swarm of black masks | B |
And outside in the palace gardens brown leaves fall | A |
Flutter | D |
Fall | A |
Brown | C |
And yellow streaked with brown | C |
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Blue black the sky over Venice | B |
With a pricking of yellow stars | B |
There is no moon | F2 |
And the waves push darkly against the prow | G2 |
Of the gondola | H2 |
Coming from Malamocco | Y |
And streaming toward Venice | B |
It is black under the gondola hood | K |
But the yellow of a satin dress | B |
Glares out like the eye of a watching tiger | D |
Yellow compassed about with darkness | B |
Yellow and black | Y |
Gorgeous barbaric | Y |
The boatman sings | B |
It is Tasso that he sings | B |
The lovers seek each other beneath their mantles | B |
And the gondola drifts over the lagoon aslant to the coming dawn | I2 |
But at Malamocco in front | K |
In Venice behind | K |
Fall the leaves | B |
Brown | C |
And yellow streaked with brown | C |
They fall | A |
Flutter | D |
Fall | A |
Amy Lowell
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