The Fallen Leaves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFAFGEGEA BHIHJKLKAEAEA BME NIKIOPBPQ BCRCSTQTUVWVI | A |
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WE stand among the fallen leaves | B |
Young children at our play | C |
And laugh to see the yellow things | D |
Go rustling on their way | C |
Right merrily we hunt them down | E |
The autumn winds and we | F |
Nor pause to gaze where snow drifts lie | A |
Or sunbeams gild the tree | F |
With dancing feet we leap along | G |
Where wither'd boughs are strown | E |
Nor past nor future checks our song | G |
The present is our own | E |
II | A |
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We stand among the fallen leaves | B |
In youth's enchanted spring | H |
When Hope who wearies at the last | I |
First spreads her eagle wing | H |
We tread with steps of conscious strength | J |
Beneath the leafless trees | K |
And the colour kindles on our cheek | L |
As blows the winter breeze | K |
While gazing towards the cold grey sky | A |
Clouded with snow and rain | E |
We wish the old year all past by | A |
And the young spring come again | E |
III | A |
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We stand among the fallen leaves | B |
In manhood's haughty prime | M |
When first our pausing hearts begin | E |
To love 'the olden time ' | - |
And as we gaze we sigh to think | N |
How many a year hath pass'd | I |
Since 'neath those cold and faded trees | K |
Our footsteps wander'd last | I |
And old companions now perchance | O |
Estranged forgot or dead | P |
Come round us as those autumn leaves | B |
Are crush'd beneath our tread | P |
IV | Q |
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We stand among the fallen leaves | B |
In our own autumn day | C |
And tott'ring on with feeble steps | R |
Pursue our cheerless way | C |
We look not back too long ago | S |
Hath all we loved been lost | T |
Nor forward for we may not live | Q |
To see our new hope cross'd | T |
But on we go the sun's faint beam | U |
A feeble warmth imparts | V |
Childhood without its joy returns | W |
The present fills our hearts | V |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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