False Alarm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DECF GFHF DFFF CIJI FECK JLFL| From early morning nonsense | A |
| With tubs and troughs and strain | B |
| With dampness in the evening | C |
| And sunsets in the rain | B |
| - | |
| Deep sighing of the darkness | D |
| And choking swallowed tears | E |
| A railway engine's calling | C |
| Down from the sixteenth verst | F |
| - | |
| Outside and in the garden | G |
| A short fast darkening day | F |
| Small breakages and losses | H |
| In true September way | F |
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| In daytime autumn's vastness | D |
| Beyond the stream is rent | F |
| By wailing in the graveyard | F |
| By anguish and lament | F |
| - | |
| But when the widow's sobbing | C |
| Is carried from the bank | I |
| With all my blood I'm with her | J |
| And see my death point blank | I |
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| As every year I see it | F |
| Out of the hall downstairs | E |
| The long delayed approaching | C |
| Of this my final year | K |
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| Through leaves in yellow terror | J |
| Its way swept clear I see | L |
| That winter from the hillside | F |
| Is staring down at me | L |
Boris Pasternak
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