Sapphics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD CEFG HDCD IJKL MICD CNFC CFIF| Clothed in splendour beautifully sad and silent | A |
| Comes the autumn over the woods and highlands | B |
| Golden rose red full of divine remembrance | C |
| Full of foreboding | D |
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| Soon the maples soon will the glowing birches | C |
| Stripped of all that summer and love had dowered them | E |
| Dream sad limbed beholding their pomp and treasure | F |
| Ruthlessly scattered | G |
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| Yet they quail not Winter with wind and iron | H |
| Comes and finds them silent and uncomplaining | D |
| Finds them tameless beautiful still and gracious | C |
| Gravely enduring | D |
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| Me too changes bitter and full of evil | I |
| Dream by dream have plundered and left me naked | J |
| Grey with sorrow Even the days before me | K |
| Fade into twilight | L |
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| Mute and barren Yet will I keep my spirit | M |
| Clear and valiant brother to these my noble | I |
| Elms and maples utterly grave and fearless | C |
| Grandly ungrieving | D |
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| Brief the span is counting the years of mortals | C |
| Strange and sad it passes and then the bright earth | N |
| Careless mother gleaming with gold and azure | F |
| Lovely with blossoms | C |
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| Shining white anemones mixed with roses | C |
| Daisies mild eyed grasses and honeyed clover | F |
| You and me and all of us met and equal | I |
| Softly shall cover | F |
Archibald Lampman
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