The Fallen Leaves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFAFGEGEA BHIHJKLKAEAEA BME NIKIOPBPQ BCRCSTQTUVWV

IA
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WE stand among the fallen leavesB
Young children at our playC
And laugh to see the yellow thingsD
Go rustling on their wayC
Right merrily we hunt them downE
The autumn winds and weF
Nor pause to gaze where snow drifts lieA
Or sunbeams gild the treeF
With dancing feet we leap alongG
Where wither'd boughs are strownE
Nor past nor future checks our songG
The present is our ownE
IIA
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We stand among the fallen leavesB
In youth's enchanted springH
When Hope who wearies at the lastI
First spreads her eagle wingH
We tread with steps of conscious strengthJ
Beneath the leafless treesK
And the colour kindles on our cheekL
As blows the winter breezeK
While gazing towards the cold grey skyA
Clouded with snow and rainE
We wish the old year all past byA
And the young spring come againE
IIIA
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We stand among the fallen leavesB
In manhood's haughty primeM
When first our pausing hearts beginE
To love 'the olden time '-
And as we gaze we sigh to thinkN
How many a year hath pass'dI
Since 'neath those cold and faded treesK
Our footsteps wander'd lastI
And old companions now perchanceO
Estranged forgot or deadP
Come round us as those autumn leavesB
Are crush'd beneath our treadP
IVQ
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We stand among the fallen leavesB
In our own autumn dayC
And tott'ring on with feeble stepsR
Pursue our cheerless wayC
We look not back too long agoS
Hath all we loved been lostT
Nor forward for we may not liveQ
To see our new hope cross'dT
But on we go the sun's faint beamU
A feeble warmth impartsV
Childhood without its joy returnsW
The present fills our heartsV

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton



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